Installing all octave-forge packages in one shot

Installing all octave-forge packages in one shot

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Someone just posted this on the octave-forge mailing list. I believe that's what you were looking for:

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Originally Posted by octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net Hi, I just had to install all of the octave-forge packages on an Ubuntu 10.04 system and it turned out that the packages are not available via aptitude. The command Code: sudo aptitude install $(aptitude search ?description\(octave-forge\) | awk '{print $2}') finally did the job. Maybe someone could put this in the Debian installation guide for other users that might come across this problem. Best,