How to solve error installing io package in octave?

Question

I did the same steps as in the video but after pkg install( video ) I get : 'error: unpack: unarchiving program exited with status: 2 tar: "/C/Users/D\\303\\263ri/Desktop/Octave/io-2.6.3.tar.gz": Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now error: called from unpack at line 279 column 5 untar at line 48 column 5 install at line 93 column 9 pkg at line 568 column 9'

Answer 1

This is likely to be a bug in Octave related to how it is handling the encoding of non-ASCII Unicode characters in your "Dóri" username, which occurs in the path to your Desktop directory. Please drop by the Octave Discourse at https://octave.discourse.group/ and report this as a bug, and we will help you out. (This would be an interesting bug to work on, as there is ongoing conversation in the Octave maintainers group about how to handle Unicode string representation.)

In the mean time, you can maybe get this to work by doing a Forge-based installation of the io package with pkg install -forge io instead.