I’m running openSUSE 13.2 with desktop kernel and Octave 3.8.2 92.1 GUI from Science repo.
Octave GUI runs fine, but click on documentation links and the GUI freezes, needing force quit.
Trying to figure out what has happened to the docs. The docs used to come as gzipped info files, which led to problems since the GUI was not able to gunzip them, we had to do it manually, but that was ok. From the file list supplied by Yast it looks as though the docs have gone to a pdf format, I don’t see any info.gz files offered right now.
Anyone else see this and find a workaround?
Octave GUI has experimental status for 3.8 branch.
dmitry@main:~> ls /usr/share/info/*octave*
/usr/share/info/liboctave.info.gz /usr/share/info/octave.info-4.gz /usr/share/info/octave.info-8.gz
/usr/share/info/octave.info-1.gz /usr/share/info/octave.info-5.gz /usr/share/info/octave.info.gz
/usr/share/info/octave.info-2.gz /usr/share/info/octave.info-6.gz
/usr/share/info/octave.info-3.gz /usr/share/info/octave.info-7.gz
Octave… I don’t see any info.gz files offered right now.
Thanks for that, your response prompted me to look again and there they were.
Further investigation shows the info.gz files are part of the main octave package, I guess I was expecting to see them in the octave-docs, but only pdfs are there.
-doc packages usually contain files from /usr/share/doc/packages/ and this files are separated due to big size. In any case if you have Octave packaging suggestions or bug reports, you are welcome. But in that case it’s better to use bugzilla or email, I don’t read forum frequently.