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I installed GNU Octave 3.6.4 today straight after it was released via the commands:

cd ~/octave-3.6.4
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo ln -s /home/brentonhorne/octave-3.6.4/run-octave /usr/bin/octave

which succeeded in installing it (even though without the last line it didn't in the sense that running octave from the command-line didn't call it).

I did this after I had removed the previous version that's currently the only version available in the software centre on Quantal (i.e. GNU Octave 3.6.3).

I then tried to install qtoctave because it was removed with GNU Octave 3.6.3 when I ran sudo apt-get remove octave. Upon running sudo apt-get install -f I received the error:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up octave (3.6.3-2~ppa1~quantal2) ...
error: couldn't read directory /usr/local/share/octave/packages: No such file or directory
error: called from:
error:   /usr/local/share/octave/3.6.4/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 541, column 7
error:   /usr/local/share/octave/3.6.4/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 472, column 25

dpkg: error processing octave (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for menu ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 octave
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Be careful, this can damage your installation!

Find the package which is not properly installed and copy or remember the name of the package:

sudo dpkg --list | grep octave

Try to remove it (maybe some errors):

sudo dpkg --remove <package>

Try to purge

sudo dpkg --purge <package>

Try to do sudo apt-get -f install again.

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  • So do I remove each individual package listed by sudo dpkg --list | grep octave?
    – Josh Pinto
    Feb 22, 2013 at 14:59

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