octave3.2 fails to install via apt-get with libumfpack.so.3.2.0 error

[udippel]

Binary package hint: octave3.2

$ sudo apt-get install octave3.2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  octave3.0-common libqt4-svg
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libqrupdate1 octave3.2-common
Suggested packages:
  octave3.2-info octave3.2-doc octave3.2-htmldoc octave3.2-headers
  octave3.2-emacsen
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libqrupdate1 octave3.2 octave3.2-common
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 10.9MB of archives.
[...]
Selecting previously deselected package libqrupdate1.
(Reading database ... 204693 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libqrupdate1 (from .../libqrupdate1_1.0.1-1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package octave3.2-common.
Unpacking octave3.2-common (from .../octave3.2-common_3.2.2-2build1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package octave3.2.
Unpacking octave3.2 (from .../octave3.2_3.2.2-2build1_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up libqrupdate1 (1.0.1-1) ...

Setting up octave3.2-common (3.2.2-2build1) ...
Setting up octave3.2 (3.2.2-2build1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/octave-3.2.2 to provide /usr/bin/octave (octave) in auto mode.
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/octave-bug-3.2.2 to provide /usr/bin/octave-bug (octave-bug) in auto mode.
octave-3.2.2: error while loading shared libraries: libumfpack.so.3.2.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing octave3.2 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Errors were encountered while processing:
 octave3.2
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 30 23:33:14 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: octave3.2 3.2.2-2build1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_SG.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: octave3.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[Judd Storrs (storrsjm)]

I think this is the result of having a broken /usr/local/bin/octave-3.2.2 before installing the package. For example this will break the install:

$ sudo ln -s /bin/false /usr/local/bin/octave-3.2.2
$ sudo apt-get install octave3.2

This fails with:

dpkg: error processing octave3.2 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Removing the link allows install to succeed.

$ sudo rm /usr/local/bin/octave-3.2.2
$ sudo apt-get install octave3.2

[udippel (udippel)]

Judd Storrs wrote:
> I think this is the result of having a broken
> /usr/local/bin/octave-3.2.2 before installing the package. For example
> this will break the install:
>
> $ sudo ln -s /bin/false /usr/local/bin/octave-3.2.2
> $ sudo apt-get install octave3.2
>
> This fails with:
>
> dpkg: error processing octave3.2 (--configure):
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>
> Removing the link allows install to succeed.
>
> $ sudo rm /usr/local/bin/octave-3.2.2
> $ sudo apt-get install octave3.2
>
>

Confirmed. (It wasn't actually broken before the upgrade 9.04->9.10, though)

Thanks so much!

Uwe

[Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning)]

This problem looks to be related to some manual installation of octave, so i'm marking the bug as such. Feel free to report any other problems you find.

[ken (kmailuk+launchpad)]

My /usr/local/bin directory is empty but installing octave3.2 still returns an error.

Running Ubuntu 9.10 (upgraded from 9.04) on amd64.

The last few lines of the install read:
Setting up octave3.2 (3.2.2-2build1) ...
error: `pkg' undefined near line 0 column 1

dpkg: error processing octave3.2 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Processing triggers for menu ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 octave3.2
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[ken (kmailuk+launchpad)]

Related bug: 418389

[Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning)]

@ken
What does the output of 'which octave-3.2.2' give you?

[ken (kmailuk+launchpad)]

@Andreas
I have tried installing and uninstalling octave3.0 and ocate3.2 in various ways. It now appears to have installed correctly. I think the problem was that
> sudo apt-get --purge remove octave3.2
did not remove octave3.2-common. After issuing the above command I followed it up with
> sudo apt-get --purge remove octave3.2-common
Then my attempt to intall
> sudo apt-get install octave3.2
worked successfully.

I do not know what exactly I did, but it is now installed and working correctly.

[Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning)]

Their seem to be some combination of the octave packages being in different removed/half-installed/installed states that causes the above postinst to fail. The postinst calls the octave binary with a command which fails in that state. If you hit it again, please post the state of octave packages, eg. 'dpkg -l | grep octave'.