Thanks to the many who helped yesterday. Octave complained that it needed libg++, even though it wasn't listed dependent on it. I tried to install libg++27_2.7.2.1-6.deb. When I did, dpkg found several packages in available that had the version field empty. I looked at the file and each of those packages had versions x:yz . I changed them to x.yz and that seemed to allow dpkg to proceed. However it then said libg++27_2.7.2.1-6 needed libc5 later than the version that was installed. So I installed libc5-dev_5.4.20-1.deb. It had a few complaints about empty version fields which I fixed the same way, and then seemed to install ok. Finally I typed "octave" and this time the response was "segmentation fault." What should I try next? Chuck kaufman
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