Installing Octave on Ubuntu Mate on Raspberry pi 3

Question

I have Ubuntu Mate on a raspberry pi 3 and I'm trying to install Octave without success so far. I got (sorry if its not accurate, I translated from Spanish):

$  sudo apt-get -y install octave
 octave : dependency: octave-common (= 4.0.0-3ubuntu9.2) but 4.2.2-1~octave~xenial2 will be installed

$ sudo apt-get -y install octave-common
octave-common is in its more recent version (4.2.2-1~octave~xenial2).

what am I doing wrong or what I'm not doing?

Answer 1

I have octave version 4.2.2-1 installed in my Lubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (amd64). And octave-common is and should be the same version.

$ LANG=C apt-cache policy octave octave-common
octave:
  Installed: 4.2.2-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 4.2.2-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 4.2.2-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
octave-common:
  Installed: 4.2.2-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 4.2.2-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 4.2.2-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Maybe it helps, if you run

sudo apt update

and maybe also

sudo apt install -f

and then try again with

sudo apt install octave