Re: Has Package Directory Moved?

On 1/27/22 8:17 PM, Andrew Janke wrote:
> 
> 
> On 1/27/22 10:07 PM, Thomas D. Dean wrote:
>> GNU Octave, version 7.0.1 from hg source
>>
>> It appears that octave no longer looks into the $(HOME)/octave 
>> directory for packages.
>>
>> octave:1> ver
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> GNU Octave Version: 7.0.1 (hg id: 02b11b9f1e61+)
> [...]
>>
>>  >pkg install --forge control
>> creates a directory ~/.local/share/octave
>>
>> I have octave installed in /usr/local
>>
>> This reeks of windows. How do I fix this?
>>
>> Tom Dean
> 
> 
> That's the FreeDesktop/XDG User Dirs specification, not Windows.
> 
> * https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/file-hierarchy.html
> 
> * https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs/
> 
> Dunno when Octave adopted it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrew
I fixed it via .octaverc

Thanks


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