Marius Schamschula wrote: > > I had tried pkg rebuild > > After sending out the e-mail I figured out the solution to my problem > (partially): > > I had installed packages globally. This means I ran octave as root via > sudo. Thus, I could only uninstall them by running octave the same > way. I wish the error message had been more clear about the reason for > not uninstalling... > > My second issue still remains: > > I have multiple versions of packages installed and would like to > remove obsolete ones without touching the current. I see no mechanism > to do this, e.g.: > > pkg uninstall symbolic 0.0.3 > > or something similar. How this was supposed to work was that you just install the new version and the old version will be removed when the new version is installed.
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