Qtoctave help not installed by default

[Magnus!]

Binary package hint: qtoctave

When installing qtoctave from the menu, the octave help packages are not installed. The help menu are therefore empty. Nothing in the program gives any hint on why you can't get help, you have to google up why.

Some programs don't need the documentation, so it is not installed by default. For qtoctave they should be included. As this is an IDE, the help files are expected to be used frequently and they are an essential part of the program.

[Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning)]

qtoctace already recommends octave3.0-htmldoc.

Changing the recommends to a depends doesn't fit the description of depends: "Use this if your program absolutely will not run (or will cause severe breakage) unless a particular package is present."

Furthermore all recommended apt-frontends defaults to installing the recommended package as well AFAIK.

Which package manager did you use to install qtoctave? And which version are you running?

[Magnus! (hotmejladress)]

Strange, I installed as a "normal" user, by add/remove in the ubuntu menu. Maybe I have a messed up system. If that is the case, that the documentation is recommended and installed by default, then I guess there is no bug.

I use Hardy, Qtoctave 0.7.4, Octave 3.0.0

Thanks for your swift response :-)

[Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning)]

Just checked to be sure. That version already recommends octave-htmldoc, so seems everything is ok.