octave-sockets 1.0.8-1 (ppc64el binary) in ubuntu trusty

 This package provides functions to work with sockets in octave,
 mimicking the Unix socket API (socket, connect, disconnect,
 gethostbyname, send, recv, bind, listen, and accept)
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 This Octave add-on package is part of the Octave-Forge project.