I got an email from Ingo Kresse, a debian user, with a simple fix that worked for me:
>I had the same problem as you had, and fixed it with > ># dpkg-reconfigure octave > >(execute as root) > >I think, apt-get should have done that automatically. Anyway, >that was my workaround. > >Cheers, >Ingo I probably should have tried that right away, but decided to pollute Launchpad instead :) If the package could be coerced into doing this somehow. that would be good. The problem is that it needs to be done after gnuplot is installed, which is not necessarily at the same time as octave is installed, since gnuplot is a recommended, rather than dependent, package. (See the discussion in bug #141055) Thanks, -Gabriel -- Octave 2.9: Error when trying to plot with gnuplot installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/141059 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
