Re: [arch-general] problem installing octave

2012-02-16 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Feb 17, 2012 7:24 AM, "Fons Adriaensen" wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 09:12:02AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > > > "Run 'pacman -Syu' and try again." > > > > But you ignored it: > > > > "I've no intention to do a full system upgrade ATM" > > I did not ignore it, I gave some reasons why that

Re: [arch-general] problem installing octave

2012-02-16 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:24:28 + Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 09:12:02AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > > > "Run 'pacman -Syu' and try again." > > > > But you ignored it: > > > > "I've no intention to do a full system upgrade ATM" > > I did not ignore it, I gave some reason

Re: [arch-general] problem installing octave

2012-02-16 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 09:12:02AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > "Run 'pacman -Syu' and try again." > > But you ignored it: > > "I've no intention to do a full system upgrade ATM" I did not ignore it, I gave some reasons why that was not an option at that time. And those reasons are in line with

Re: [arch-general] problem installing octave

2012-02-16 Thread Allan McRae
On 17/02/12 09:05, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > Apperently just expecting people to read a post before replying is > asking too much. I did a 'pacman -Sy' before anything else. It would > really help if the Arch gods would *read* and *try to understand* a > request for help on this list before emittin

Re: [arch-general] problem installing octave

2012-02-16 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:12:47PM -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote: > Simply put there are 2 pkg trees: in the official repos and on your system. > They are supposed to be in-sync -- that's what pacman -Sy does. pacman -S > fetches pkg according to YOUR tree. Over time the sync is lost, so YOUR tree >

Re: [arch-general] problem installing octave

2012-02-16 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:52:27 + Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:41:53PM +0100, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Fons Adriaensen > > wrote: > > > > > Because it is apparently a dependency of octave. And pacman tried to > > > install it, but fa

Re: [arch-general] problem installing octave

2012-02-16 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > But again: the problem is that one library *fails to install*, > even if the package database is up to date, and even if I try > to install it explicitly. How did you try to update curl and what errors are you getting? Sorry if you alread

Re: [arch-general] problem installing octave

2012-02-16 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:55:22PM +0100, Alexandre Ferrando wrote: > On 16 February 2012 22:52, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > > Could you elaborate a bit on that ?  Isn't 'pacman -S foo' supposed > > to either install (if not yet installed) or update any dependencies > > of 'foo' ? That anyway is w

Re: [arch-general] problem installing octave

2012-02-16 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:41:53PM +0100, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Fons Adriaensen >> wrote: >> >> > Because it is apparently a dependency of octave. And pacman tried to >> > install it, but failed du

Re: [arch-general] problem installing octave

2012-02-16 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 16 February 2012 22:52, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > Could you elaborate a bit on that ?  Isn't 'pacman -S foo' supposed > to either install (if not yet installed) or update any dependencies > of 'foo' ? That anyway is what apperently it has done for the last > three years I've been using it... T

Re: [arch-general] problem installing octave

2012-02-16 Thread Kacper Żuk
Try to change mirror and do pacman -Syy. 2012/2/16 Fons Adriaensen > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:41:53PM +0100, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Fons Adriaensen > wrote: > > > > > Because it is apparently a dependency of octave. And pacman tried to > > > install it,

Re: [arch-general] problem installing octave

2012-02-16 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:41:53PM +0100, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > > Because it is apparently a dependency of octave. And pacman tried to > > install it, but failed due to the 'no version information'. > > 'pacman -S foo' doesn't work

Re: [arch-general] problem installing octave

2012-02-16 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:22:51PM +0100, Karol Blazewicz wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Fons Adriaensen >> wrote: >> > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 09:52:49PM +0100, Karol Blazewicz wrote: >> >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:49 PM,

Re: [arch-general] problem installing octave

2012-02-16 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:22:51PM +0100, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 09:52:49PM +0100, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Fons Adriaensen > >> wrote: > >> > I tried to install octave (aft

Re: [arch-general] problem installing octave

2012-02-16 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 09:52:49PM +0100, Karol Blazewicz wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: >> > I tried to install octave (after a pacman -Sy). >> >> Run 'pacman -Syu' and try again. > > I've no intention

Re: [arch-general] problem installing octave

2012-02-16 Thread Jesse Jaara
You MUST always do a full systen upgrade before installing a package. Do it. If it wont help then try to email again.

Re: [arch-general] problem installing octave

2012-02-16 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 16 February 2012 22:04, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > I've no intention to do a full system upgrade ATM, nor should > it be necessary. The problem is not that the missing lib is > out of date but that pacman apparently can't get it. That's exactly why you need to do a full system update. Partial up

Re: [arch-general] problem installing octave

2012-02-16 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 09:52:49PM +0100, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > I tried to install octave (after a pacman -Sy). > > Run 'pacman -Syu' and try again. I've no intention to do a full system upgrade ATM, nor should it be necessary. The p

Re: [arch-general] problem installing octave

2012-02-16 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > I tried to install octave (after a pacman -Sy). Run 'pacman -Syu' and try again.