From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sat Apr  8 16:54:58 2000
Subject: Re: octave does not see GNU plot
From: Dejan Beznec <Dejan dot Beznec at ijs dot si>
To: Russell Humphris <rch194 at rhumphris dot freeserve dot co dot uk>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 01:57:41 +0200

Russell Humphris wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> I downloaded the binary octave-2.0.14-1.i386.rpm , when I try to install
> it through the rpm command I get (amongst other things),  'gnuplot is
> needed by octave-2.0.14-1. I have gnuplot-3.7.1 and the binary is in
> /usr/local/bin . Can anybody please tell me how I can get octave to see
> gnuplot. Any advice welcome
If you have gnuplot in /usr/local/bin it is probably installed manually
and not through rpm.
Rpm dependancies are handeled only via rpm database, so you have two
choices:
1) install gnuplot from rpm, then octave should install without any
problems
2) install octave with option --nodeps 
   This way it won't check for gnuplot, but if it is in a path it should
work anyway.

	Kind regards
		Dejan

P.S.
Isn't octave 2.0.16 the latest?



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