Hi Paul, I agree, this is now a problem in the latest release 15.04. The
graphicsmagick package was updated to a new build using the 16-bit
quantum depth option, and the octave source package was not rebuilt
against that library. I'm retitling and updating this bug report to
reflect the incompatibi
Thanks for your help! Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be what's
affecting me.
The problem is certainly an 8bit vs 16 bit problem, but not as a result
of a PPA: in Ubuntu 15.04 the only version of libmagickcore-6 available
is a 16-bit version. I've even tried reinstalling everything with
"magic
Hello Paul,
I got my problem solved, on my side it wasn't a bug. It turned out, my problem
was a ppa that made me use a 16bit ImageMagick. In my case it was
ppa:dhor/myway which I used because of rawtherapee. Once I removed uninstalled
ImageMagick/Octave. removed the ppa and reinstalled octave
I'm also seeing this bug. I'm running Ubuntu 15.04 and Octave was
installed entirely from the official Ubuntu repository. Nothing is
marked as broken in aptitude.
Steps to reproduce:
sudo apt-get install octave
echo "X = imread('bird_small.png')" > imfail.m
octave imfail.m
Actual result:
error:
[Expired for octave (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
days.]
** Changed in: octave (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Expired
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Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and trying to help make
Ubuntu better. However, it seems that you are running Octave against
libraries not provided by the official Ubuntu repositories.
Specifically, it looks like you are running a version of the
GraphicsMagick library that was buil
