Executing: g-octave -u econometrics Resulted in: >>> Creating Manifest for /var/lib/g-octave/g-octave/miscellaneous * Ebuild class error - Package not found: /econometrics-1.0.8 * If you fell that this is a bug, please report to us. * http://www.g-octave.org/ The econometrics ebuild was created at another path which is: /var/lib/g-octave/g-octave/econometrics The g-octave ebuild directory looks as follows: # ls /var/lib/g-octave/g-octave/* /var/lib/g-octave/g-octave/econometrics: econometrics-1.0.8.ebuild Manifest metadata.xml /var/lib/g-octave/g-octave/miscellaneous: Manifest metadata.xml miscellaneous-1.0.9.ebuild /var/lib/g-octave/g-octave/optim: Manifest metadata.xml optim-1.0.12.ebuild This was done after doing: emerge -auv g-octave And after no changes to config file, executed: emerge --config =g-octave-0.4.1 Octave version: # octave --version GNU Octave, version 3.2.4 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -auv g-octave 2. emerge --config =g-octave-0.4.1 3. g-octave -u econometrics Actual Results: The following error appears: >>> Creating Manifest for /var/lib/g-octave/g-octave/miscellaneous * Ebuild class error - Package not found: /econometrics-1.0.8 * If you fell that this is a bug, please report to us. * http://www.g-octave.org/ Expected Results: Package should be installed
Needed to add the science overlay before running g-octave. The problem was solved by running: layman -a science g-octave -av econometrics I have missed the science overlay part in the documentation. Sorry for the trouble.