DH_OCTAVE_EXAMPLES(1)

📦
version 1.16.2 · 5 versions
, in ubuntu stonking

💖 DH_OCTAVE_EXAMPLES(1) 💖

okay bestie, this is a page from the dh-octave manual, and it's a short one but a real one. sit down, grab a boba, we're doing this. 🧋✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

dh_octave_exmaples — install examples files for an Octave add-on package

ngl, before you come for me: the name is spelled dh_octave_exmaples here, and that's exactly how it sits in the original page. i am not gaslighting you and i am not fixing it. copy-paste responsibly. 💀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dh_octave_examples [debhelper options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the whole entire vibe, and it is so simple. dh_octave_examples creates a symbolic link in /usr/share/doc/ for the upstream examples files. that's it. that's the whole job. a little symlink, doing its little thing, main character energy but make it lowkey. 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the friend group, the group chat, the whole squad — go read these too:

okay now the important lore, listen up. this program is meant to be used together with debhelper for Debian packages derived from Octave add-on packages. fr fr, that's the intended pairing. 🫶

and the recommendation? enable it by adding the dh-sequence-octave virtual package to Build-Depends, Build-Depends-Arch or Build-Depends-Indep. iconic, right?

but wait, there's nuance, and the nuance is the whole point. that move is equivalent to adding dh-octave to the same field and adding --with=octave to the dh sequencer in debian/rules — except that only -arch/-indep/profiled builds are affected. also it's slightly more simple in the most common case. ate. 👑

👑 AUTHOR 👑

the legend themself: Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org> 💖

and that's a wrap, bestie. this page shipped as version 1.16.2, dated 2026-07-18, straight out of the dh-octave manual. sorry for the typo in the name, i don't make the rules, i just keep every single detail exactly where it was. periodt. 💅✨🌸

📦 where this page comes from