From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Jan  7 16:05:32 2004
Subject: Re: Newbie install question
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Bill Kreamer" <bkreamer at surfglobal dot net>
Cc: "Michel" <michel at lumumba dot luc dot ac dot be>, <help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 16:05:18 -0600

On  7-Jan-2004, Bill Kreamer <bkreamer at surfglobal dot net> wrote:

| I've been using YaST.
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Michel" <michel at lumumba dot luc dot ac dot be>
| To: "Bill Kreamer" <bkreamer at surfglobal dot net>
| Cc: <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
| Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 09:42
| Subject: Re: Newbie install question
| 
| 
| > Suse should have a tool called YasT I think that sgould solvbe your
| > dependecy-problems.
| >
| > Brabants Michel
| >
| > Bill Kreamer wrote:
| >
| > >I recently bought and installed SuSE Linux 9.0 Personal, and found out
| that
| > >both Octave and Gnuplot were missing. I tried downloading rpm's from
| SuSE's
| > >ftp site, but got into a package dependency mess when I tried to install
| > >them. Is there a better way to obtain  and install these two items?

Since you got the RPM files from SuSE, and you are using their
distribution, have you tried asking them how to solve the problem?

I would recommend Debian, but then I would probably get into trouble
with people who prefer other distributions and think that I only care
about what I use...

jwe



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