From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sat Dec 28 18:07:45 2002 Subject: Re: Getting working version? From: Dirk Eddelbuettel To: James Frye Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 18:07:34 -0600 On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 03:55:07PM -0800, James Frye wrote: > Is there any way to simply get a working binary distribution, say a Linux > RPM, or even just everything in a .tgz file? The octave.org page says > that binaries are available from Linux vendors, but I can't find any sign > of them on either the SuSe or Red Hat web sites. There is an older binary > on the distribution CD (2.0.14 or some such), but that doesn't work at > all. I cannot speak for the other distros, but I have been releasing Debian packages pretty much on the day of JWE's releases for a few years now. As there are converters for translating to and from .deb and .rpm packages, you could give these a shot from, say, http://packages.debian.org/octave2.1 and feed them into alien [ one of those converters ]. While I don't typically follow CVS releases, I don't think I ever had a problem building Octave on current Debian machines. >From what I read here and on other lists devoted to numerical/scientific software, Red Hat sometimes has compiler issues and SuSE sometimes forgets or drops things like header packages for ncurses or readline. Hope this helps, Dirk -- Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. -- Niels Bohr ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------