After upgrading to intrepid I found that octave3 and at least all octave-forge packages I rely on are available and working fine. If you are stuck in Hardy with a semi-nonfunctional Octave it may be an idea to upgrade.
-- Hardy : Package Octave Forge is missing in 2.1 as 2.9 and 3.0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/225031 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs