package dynare-matlab 4.2.1-2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

[rabi]

During upgrade to 11.10 from 11.4
The package asks fpr the installation path of matlab
but i never installed matlab on my computer
The ugrade procedure asks several times for this path without the option to ignore the configuration or override it.
I cannot give a path vbecause it is never installed.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: dynare-matlab 4.2.1-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic-pae 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 13 22:37:16 2011
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: dynare
Title: package dynare-matlab 4.2.1-2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-13 (0 days ago)

[Nicholas Lineback (nicholas-lineback)]

I am also having this problem.

[Sébastien Villemot (sebastien-villemot)]

The "dynare-matlab" package is only for machines with MATLAB installed, as explained in the description of the package.

So I don't think that the problem you are reporting is a bug. You should not have installed this package in the first place if you don't have MATLAB, and you should uninstall it now.

If you want to run Dynare with GNU Octave instead, the "dynare" package is what you are looking for.

[rabi (ralf-biehl)]

Hi
I read that matlab-support is only for matlab installations as the name suggests.
But is is there without any matlab version installed ever before.
I dont know which dependency it was, that installed it automatically.

If you upgrade Ubuntu, matlab-support asks always (in an infinite loop)
about the matlab location without any escape chance.
This can only be solved by a kill of these processes (several times repeated)
(during an upgrade a very inconvenient situation).
Later i could remove the package still being unaware why it is there.

So the bug is that in the logic of the upgrade i cannot escape without a valid matlab installation path.

The solution is to allow a override of the matlab-support configuration during upgrade
 or a deinstallation/skip of the package during upgrade
or that the dependency which installed it is cleared.
Best

[Sébastien Villemot (sebastien-villemot)]

What you are describing is a problem in the matlab-support package, not in the dynare-matlab package. You should probably report a new bug against matlab-support, or reassign this bug.

Best,

[rabi (ralf-biehl)]

Yes, you are right

This Bug report was automatically assigned during upgrade.
I try to reassign
Thanks