Re: recent version of octave in debian buster?

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>]

* Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org> [2020-10-27 16:29]:

> * thalasso <thalasso@t-online.de> [2020-10-25 16:03]:
>
> > I would like to use a more recent version of octave than 4.4.1 - 
> > preferably as recent as possible :)
> >
> > I tried to do a backport using this descritption: 
> > https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation
> >
> > But that failed due to to dependency problems with debhelper-compat 
> > and debhelper.
> >
> > Is a backport from bullseye scheduled?
>
> I have uploaded version 5.2.0 of the octave package backported to 
> buster.  It is now in the NEW queue:
>
> https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/octave_5.2.0-3~bpo10%2B1.html

Since the packages are sitting on the NEW queue and waiting for the 
approval of the ftp-masters, I have set up an APT repository for them.

Here is the cookbook for installing the packages on a buster system :

    echo "deb http://rafael.laboissiere.net/octave-buster-backports/ /" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/octave-buster-backports.list
    wget -q -O - http://rafael.laboissiere.net/octave-buster-backports/KEY.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
    sudo apt update
    sudo apt install octave

I hope this will work for you.  If not, please drop me a note.

Best,

Rafael Laboissière