[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #61084] pkg windows missing actxserver function

[Markus Mützel]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #61084 (project octave):

Local packages are installed at the same location by default for *all* version
of Octave up to 6.x. That means they are overwritten by a new `pkg install
...`.

Many packages consist of not only .m files but also of compiled binaries (.oct
files). Binaries might be incompatible between different versions of Octave.
That means that a package that was installed with one version of Octave might
not work when used with a different version of Octave. It will still show up
in `pkg list` though.

Starting with Octave 7.x, local packages will be installed with an API prefix
by default. That means they will no longer be overwritten by binary
incompatible versions and will no longer show up in `pkg list` when they were
installed in an incompatible version of Octave.

In this particular case, you could probably use the global version of that
package that comes with the Octave installer for Windows. Just uninstall the
local package with `pkg uninstall windows` and Octave should start using the
global packages that match the respective version of Octave core.


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