problem Octave GUI and flatpck

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Mon Aug 20 10:55:01 UTC 2018


On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 12:47 PM Maria Eugenia Gomez
<eugegomez80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
> I thought I had a problem with my previous Octave version, so I decided installing a new version via Flatpak. I have an Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS (Linux 4.4.0-131-generic (i686) ).
> I did not have flatpak installed, so I installed it. When doing so, the following instruction failed because it did not find the plugin. Anyway I think it does not matter so much.
>
> sudo apt install gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
>
> The important problem (at least in my case) occurred when running octave. There is a problem with the GUI
>
> (octave-gui:2): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown
> GNU Octave, version 4.4.1

Its not clear to me if this is just a warning it printed, or if it
exited with an error.

Anyway, the issue seems that it can't find the accessibility bus.  Can
you try installing the at-spi2-core package on the host?



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