Package: octave3.0
Version: 3.0.2
Severity: important
Subject: octave3.0: libpq-dev needs to be included in dependencies.
Package: octave3.0
Version: 3.0.2
Severity: important
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Octave 3.0 itself builds fine from apt-get, but I was trying to add the 'database' package, and ran into some issues trying to talk to postgresql databases. All other
databases supported by this package are OK.
Talking to the database package creator:
> I installed your kit, and can talk to sqlite3 and mysql OK, but when I
> type in 'postgres', I don't receive a definition. Any ideas why?
Does postgres.oct get built? If not, can you send your configure log?
If yes, is it in your path when you run postgres?
Xavier
THEN:
> So I found the problem:
>
> You do a pkg install database-1.0.1.tar.gz -verbose and you get:
>
> checking postgresql/libpq-fe.h usability... no checking
> postgresql/libpq-fe.h presence... no checking for
> postgresql/libpq-fe.h... no checking mysql/mysql.h usability... yes
> checking mysql/mysql.h presence... yes
>
> so look around for libpq-fe.h:
>
> sz-ud017:/usr/include# apt-file search libpq-fe.h
> libpq-dev: /usr/include/postgresql/libpq-fe.h
>
> sz-ud017:/usr/include# apt-get install libpq-dev Reading package
> lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information...
> Done The following extra packages will be installed:
> libssl-dev
> Suggested packages:
> postgresql-doc-8.3
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> libpq-dev libssl-dev
> 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> libpq-dev libssl-dev
> 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 2519kB of archives.
> After this operation, 6701kB of additional disk space will be used.
>
> And then an install gives:
> checking postgresql/libpq-fe.h usability... yes checking
> postgresql/libpq-fe.h presence... yes checking for
> postgresql/libpq-fe.h... yes checking mysql/mysql.h usability... yes
> checking mysql/mysql.h presence... yes
>
> and now I can talk to a Postgres DB.
>
> libpq-dev is not installed by default however on an install of "postgresql"
> with debian. Would it be worth putting a note in SF to this effect?
Okay, I'll add some notes about installing required packages to the README.
Would you still file a bug against the debian database package? since I think them not building the postgres.oct binary is wrong (the build machine didn't have libpq-dev
installed, or similar), and it is the method many/most users will use.
Thanks!
Xavier
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I rated this as 'important' because most people wanting to install octave I image would want to talk to a database, and this would be their normal method of
installation.
This package might be needed for octave3.0-headers instead rather than octave3.0, but I'll leave that up to someone else to decide.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages octave3.0 depends on:
ii libatlas3gf-base [libl 3.6.0-22 Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii libblas3gf [libblas.so 1.2-2 Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii libatlas3gf-base [libl 3.6.0-22 Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii libblas3gf [libblas.so 1.2-2 Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.18.2-5 Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii libfftw3-3 3.1.2-3.1 library for computing Fast Fourier
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-2 GCC support library
ii libgfortran3 4.3.1-2 Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii libglpk0 4.29-2 linear programming kit with intege
ii libhdf5-serial-1.6.6-0 1.6.6-4 Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5)
ii liblapack3gf [liblapac 3.1.1-1 library of linear algebra routines
ii libncurses5 5.6+20080804-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpcre3 7.6-2.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii libqhull5 2003.1-9 calculate convex hulls and related
ii libreadline5 5.2-3 GNU readline and history libraries
ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libsuitesparse-3.1.0 3.1.0-3 collection of libraries for comput
ii texinfo 4.11.dfsg.1-4 Documentation system for on-line i
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages octave3.0 recommends:
pn gnuplot <none> (no description available)
ii libatlas3gf-base 3.6.0-22 Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
Versions of packages octave3.0 suggests:
pn octave3.0-doc <none> (no description available)
pn octave3.0-emacsen <none> (no description available)
pn octave3.0-headers <none> (no description available)
pn octave3.0-htmldoc <none> (no description available)
pn octave3.0-info <none> (no description available)
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