Ubuntu
octave3.2 package

  1. Bug #465005
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 465005

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Judd Storrs (storrsjm) 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