Comment 5 for bug 465005

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)