2012/2/29 Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot@ens.fr>: > +[junk, target] = system("dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH"); > +pkg ("prefix", "/usr/share/octave/packages", [ "/usr/lib/" strtrim(target) "/octave/packages/"]); > +clear junk target FYI, you can do [~, target] = foo() since Octave 3.4.0. I pushed a change. - Jordi G. H.