myDSL Extensions (deprecated) :: writing only to home, tmp, and opt

lintian?

Look in /usr/share/lintian , for example ..

This stuff is for debian package management..
It doesn't apply to .dsl or .tar.gz files..

I frequently find them in extensions,
probably from using .debs for making .dsl's and .tar.gz's

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ke4nt

ah....that would explain why i never heard of it. I try to stay away from packages as much as I can.

I'm not much of a linux guru.
but I do need the use of octave for a course I'm doing.
could someone explain the exact procudure they used (including file location) to get octave running on dsl?
thanks

edit:
nm
I was so annoyed at being unable to install octave on SME server (stupid red hat rpm's) that I completely forgot that dsl was debian based...
'apt-get install octave' is sooo much nicer than hunting down several hundred rpm files

original here.