It seems clear from the above that the provided octave2.9-forge package is built for a different API version then octave2.9, i.e. 22 instead of 24.
My solution for gutsy works OK, so far: 1. Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list deb-src http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main multiverse universe 2. Type in a shell the following 3 lines > cd /usr/src > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get source -b octave2.9-forge octave2.9-forge The last line starts the build of the package and generated the file mentioned below. I had to install some build dependencies before it could start. It took 20 minutes on my PC. 3. Type in a shell the following line to install (or rather upgrade) the octave2.9-forge package: > sudo dpkg -i octave2.9-forge_2006.07.09+dfsg1-8_i386.deb 4. Add the following 2 lines into /etc/octave2.9.conf or ~/.octaverc: addpath (genpath ("/usr/lib/octave/site/oct/api-v24/i486-pc-linux-gnu/octave2.9-forge"), "-begin"); addpath (genpath ("/usr/share/octave/site"), "-begin"); With this, only 6 warning messages (warning: autoload: `' is not an absolute file name) appeared instead of over 100. I tried imread and imwrite and both worked fine. I hope this will be fixed for hardy as octave2.9-forge does not work in gutsy and might be considered a critical bug. -- octave2.9-forge doesn't work in Gutsy! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/157050 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
