Public bug reported:
On a fresh installation, I installed octave and octave-dev, but that did
not ensure that 'make' was installed, which I believe should be declared
as a dependency of 'octave-dev':
octave:45> pkg install -forge control
pkg: downloading latest package database from packages.octave.org...
pkg: this may take a moment, please wait...
error: pkg: please install the Debian package "octave-dev" to get the mkoctfile
command
error: called from
__gripe_missing_component__ at line 60 column 3
configure_make at line 46 column 7
install at line 202 column 7
pkg at line 692 column 9
octave:46> pkg install -forge control
pkg: downloading latest package database from packages.octave.org...
pkg: this may take a moment, please wait...
sh: 1: make: not found
error: pkg: error running 'make' for the control package
error: called from
configure_make at line 121 column 9
install at line 202 column 7
pkg at line 692 column 9
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 26.04
Package: octave-dev 11.1.0-3
Uname: Linux 6.18.40.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.34.1-0ubuntu0.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
Date: Wed Oct 14 12:27:51 2026
ProcEnviron:
LANG=C.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, no user)
SHELL=/bin/bash
TERM=xterm-256color
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: octave
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: octave (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug resolute wayland-session
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'octave-dev' package does not declare a dependency on 'make'
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