From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Jan  5 16:57:27 2004
Subject: Re: plotting to Postscript doesn't work?
From: Geraint Paul Bevan <g dot bevan at mech dot gla dot ac dot uk>
To: Bart Vandewoestyne <Bart dot Vandewoestyne at pandora dot be>
CC: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 23:03:51 +0000

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Bart Vandewoestyne wrote:
| John W. Eaton wrote:
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|>
|> BTW, the recommended version is 2.1.50, so if you are new to Octave,
|> you might want to use that instead of 2.1.52.
|
|
| I would love to use a more 'recommended' version, but unfortunately, i
| don't know how to 'go back' from version 2.1.52 to 2.1.50 on my Debian
| unstable system... anybody got experience in this?  Can i just purge the
| package and then search for a 2.1.50 somewhere on the Internet and dpkg
| -i that one... crossing my fingers I won't fall into a dependency hell?
|
| Regards,
| Bart
|

Octave is part of the main Debian distribution, so you shouldn't need to
go hunting around on the net as long as you have some of the standard
Debian mirrors listed in your /etc/apt/sources.list file.

You should be fine if you remove the package and then use apt-get to
install version 2.1.50

- - You can install a specific version of a package *untested*:
apt-get install octave2.1=2.1.50

- - Alternatively, as the Debian testing package is 2.1.50-3, you can try
*untested*:
apt-get install -t testing octave2.1

I prefer to use "aptitude", which allows you to select which of the
available versions you want to install. It is a really nice tool,
although I didn't find the interface particularly intuitive when I first
started using it.

If you don't want to use apt or aptitude for whatever reason, you can
also just install the new package using dpkg directly and then use
update-alternatives to select the version to use.

FWIW, I used aptitude to do this very same thing a few minutes ago -
everything is still working ok for me :o)

- --
Geraint Bevan
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/geraint.bevan

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