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+## Copyright (C) 2014 Carlo de Falco
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
+## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{prefix}, @var{archprefix} =} @
+## default_prefix (@var{global_install})
+## Undocumented internal function.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function [prefix, archprefix] = default_prefix (global_install)
+  if (global_install)
+    prefix = fullfile (OCTAVE_HOME (), "share", "octave", "packages");
+    archprefix = fullfile (octave_config_info ("libdir"), "octave",
+                           "packages", [desc.name "-" desc.version]);
+  else
+    prefix = tilde_expand (fullfile ("~", "octave"));
+    archprefix = prefix;
+  endif
+endfunction
+