Please provide an updated database, as many octave packages have seen updates since the last year. https://github.com/rafaelmartins/g-octave-db was updated on 2011/09/18 See updates on: http://octave.sourceforge.net/index.html
Created attachment 320224 [details] drop in replacement to update g-octave-db You need a configured /etc/g-octave.conf - the script looks for variable "db" and changes into this directory - it then uses wget to fetch octave-forge pkgs from the official site - it extracts "DESCRIPTION" files from the archives and puts them into the proper place for g-octave to work - check the results with g-octave --list - update your local repo with g-octave --list-raw | while read ; do g-octave --force -p $REPLY ; done Greetings