On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:22:51PM +0100, Karol Blazewicz wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 09:52:49PM +0100, Karol Blazewicz wrote: >> >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > I tried to install octave (after a pacman -Sy). >> >> >> >> Run 'pacman -Syu' and try again. >> > >> > I've no intention to do a full system upgrade ATM, nor should >> > it be necessary. The problem is not that the missing lib is >> > out of date but that pacman apparently can't get it. >> >> You updated just the package database not the packages themselves, so >> how on earth was pacman supposed to update that lib? > > Because it is apparently a dependency of octave. And pacman tried to > install it, but failed due to the 'no version information'. 'pacman -S foo' doesn't work that way. Have you tried using the previous version of octave (octave 3.4.3-2)? http://arm.konnichi.com/search/index.php?a=32&q=octave&core=1&extra=1&community=1
