From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Jan 5 18:11:29 2004 Subject: Re: plotting to Postscript doesn't work? From: Dirk Eddelbuettel To: Bart Vandewoestyne Cc: Geraint Paul Bevan , help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 18:11:07 -0600 On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:22:07AM +0100, Bart Vandewoestyne wrote: > forsythe:~# apt-get install octave2.1=2.1.50 > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Version '2.1.50' for 'octave2.1' was not found Of course, you also need testing entries in your /etc/apt/sources.list. That probably stopped you here. > >- - Alternatively, as the Debian testing package is 2.1.50-3, you can try > >*untested*: > >apt-get install -t testing octave2.1 > > This command worked, but the version still seems to be 2.1.52: > > forsythe:~# apt-get install -t testing octave2.1 > ... > Unpacking octave2.1 (from .../octave2.1_2.1.52-1_i386.deb) ... > Setting up octave2.1 (2.1.52-1) ... See above. > Downgrading Debian packages has never been a hobby of mine... ;-) > I guess I'll stick to 2.1.52 for now... You could use a) apt-get install octave2.1/testing b) apt-get -t testing octave2.1 c) dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/octave2.1_2.1.50-3_i386.deb [ if you still have it sitting there ... ] d) the download-only option of apt-get, and then install via dpkg as in c) e) do it manually with a ftp or web browser, then use dpkg Hth, Dirk -- The relationship between the computed price and reality is as yet unknown. -- From the pac(8) manual page ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------