From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Mar 18 00:28:39 1999 Subject: using Solaris binaries From: Mike Miller To: Help-Octave List cc: Paul Wiedemeier Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 00:28:22 -0600 (CST) I installed Octave, version 2.0.13 (sparc-sun-solaris2.5 binaries) on my Sun Ultra 2 2200 running Solaris 2.6. When the installation was complete, I tried to run octave and received an error stating that libF77.so.3 could not be found. I checked the help-octave archive and found that this problem came up just a few days ago for another user. I was able to fix the problem as follows. Apparently, the package SUNWspro was available on the machine on which octave was compiled, so octave looks for certain libraries from that package. The package, which includes a FORTRAN compiler, is available from Sun under a 30-day "Try-It and Buy-It" option at http://www.sun.com/workshop/buy After 30 days, the compiler will no longer function, but the libraries are still available and it seems that Sun has no objection to their continued use. Thus, this is a free permanent fix. Unfortunately, to get the few files I needed, I downloaded 13 tar files, a total of 292 megabytes! After installing the whopping package (it went very smoothly), I started up octave and it ran beautifully. I then tried it on a second machine. This time I only copied over the libF77.so.3 file and placed it in an appropriate place (see below). Octave then stated that libsunmath.so.1 was missing, so I copied that file over. Then it was missing libcx.so.1, so I copied that one over. After that, octave ran fine. So it seems like the three files that are needed are these three files: /opt/SUNWspro/lib/libF77.so.3 /opt/SUNWspro/lib/libsunmath.so.1 /opt/SUNWspro/lib/libcx.so.1 With those present on the system, octave runs. Regards, Mike -- Michael B. Miller, M.S., Ph.D., M.P.E. Department of Psychology 210 McAlester Hall University of Missouri--Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 Phone: (573) 882-5671 Fax: (573) 882-7710 e-mail: mbmiller at taxa dot psyc dot missouri dot edu web: http://taxa.psyc.missouri.edu/~mbmiller/