Marius Schamschula wrote: > > On May 15, 2008, at 7:10 AM, David Bateman wrote: > >> 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. > > Logically, that is what I would have expected as well. However, I've > ended up with a collection of multiple installed versions for most > packages. That is why I manually removed everything from all previous > octave-forge installs before installing the current version.
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