thanks Yaroslav and Mario for the speedy help with this. so I just tried:
sudo apt-get update which ran fine. however i get the same errors as before with: sudo apt-get install matlab-psychtoolbox-3 sudo apt-get install matlab-psychtoolbox-3-nonfree is there another step i am missing? e l l a On 6 Aug 2014, at 11:49 pm, Yaroslav Halchenko <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 06 Aug 2014, Mario Kleiner wrote: >>>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. >>>> i'm guessing that this means that the matlab-psychtoolbox-3 package is >>>> currently out-of-date? >>>> any help with getting this to work would be much appreciated. amongst the >>>> researchers that i work with, i'm trying to lead the charge towards Linux >>>> and eventually Octave... > >>> well -- Octave one should work no-problem, with Matlab one (blame is >>> mine since I haven't had time to implement install-time building of >>> extensions and just distribute Mario's copies) we would need to figure >>> it out... > >>> Mario -- you just staticly build-in GLEW, don't you? so I could just >>> drop dependency on libglew altogether for that matlab- package, or >>> I have forgotten smth? > > >> Yes, statically linked, so dropping the dependency for the Matlab >> mex files from me should work. > >> Although i wonder why the same problem doesn't happen with your >> octave mex files? Dependency on different glew version - probably >> whatever is the system default one? > > yes... but for octave I do build actual binary packages on every > Debian/Ubuntu release and specific libglewVERSION dependency gets > automatically inserted (I just build-depend on libglew-dev). For > matlab, since I just take your binaries atm, I didn't bother building > per-release binary package but make the same package available, thus > hardcoding those dependencies. > >> My Ubuntu 14.04 has libglew1.10 >> as current one. I have an old libglew1.9, but that seems to be a >> leftover from a 13.04 installation and the package manager says it >> comes from: 1.9.0-3~bnd1~nd13.04+1 >> So at some point it was part of NeuroDebian, apparently for 13.04. > > ;-) yeap... and as a quick workaround for original problem I now > uploaded a backport build for 14.04 as well (the same for freenect > 0.1), so issue should be resolved (tested in a clean 14.04 environment > -- installs fine now, just do apt-get update first) > > >>> freenect -- would you mind rebuilding your extensions against freenect >>> 0.2? for some reason I have only uploaded 0.2 to Debian proper but not >>> to NeuroDebian, and now users on bleeding edge Ubuntu releases with >>> neuroDebian end up "bleeding". Ella -- I will push a build of 0.1 >>> version of libfreenect for trusty tomorrow to NeuroDebian so we would >>> have a quick resolution for that one at least... >> Not sure about that. Old distros which we still support won't have >> freenect 0.2, no? My old Matlab build system definitely doesn't have >> it. >> I'd do such a switch for the next beta, when the 3.0.12 series >> starts, so we can have one transition with changed >> dependencies/system requirements. I'd like to avoid touching 3.0.11 >> as much as possible, i really want to get rid of its maintenance, >> given that it is declared eol since April. > > They will, if neuroDebian repository would be enabled. since we do not > support carrying multiple versions of packages atm, and we do not have > automated migration machinery (such as unstable->testing in Debian) I do > not want to upload 0.2 to NeuroDebian "proper". I did upload it for now > (few 32bit builds still TODO), to NeuroDebian -devel (let me know if you > need instructions) so you could install/build against it and then we > would upload both upcoming PTB-3 and freenect 0.2 to NeuroDebian for all > Debian/Ubuntu's. > > once again, for now I just uploaded 0.1 backport for 14.04 -- it should > not cause any trouble I believe and should resolve the issue. > >> But iirc one can simply set a soft-link from freenect 0.1 to 0.2, >> and the mex files will work with it and gain some new functionality, >> e.g., XBOX for Window support. > > Cheers! > > -- > Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Ph.D. > http://neuro.debian.net http://www.pymvpa.org http://www.fail2ban.org > Research Scientist, Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept. > Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 > Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 > WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik > > _______________________________________________ > Neurodebian-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/neurodebian-users
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