Avraham Rosenberg wrote: > packages only. Anyway, I went immediately for it and for transfig. > I was less lucky with octave2.9: > "Package octave2.9 is not available, but is referred to by another package. > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or > is only available from another source > E: Package octave2.9 has no installation candidate" > Hmm... Seems that the amd64 version is only available for unstable (which is the flavor I use)...
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=octave2.9&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all If you really need it, you could add unstable to your sources.list (just make sure to put Apt::Default-Release "testing"; in your apt.conf if you wish to avoid a wholesale upgrade to sid). > The 64-bit octave2.1 does work with the 32-bit xv without problems. I > still intend to try and build the 64-bit xv version, but this is not > urgent matter. > As for submitting it to debian, I am affraid that xv's licence is not > "politically corect" enough for them. I prefer it, nevertheless, to > Indeed - seems that it's a "personal use only" license (distributing binaries is illegal, even if you buy the "site license"), so even in non-free it would be illegal. However, I'm sure an automatic installer in "contrib" (like the ones for Java or MS truetype fonts) would be appreciated. But, of course, let's not put the cart before the horse - we must have a working compilation first... Amit ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
