From help-request at octave dot org Fri Nov  4 07:41:47 2005
Subject: Re: which Linux distribution offers the best octave-support?
From: Michael Creel <michael dot creel at uab dot es>
To: =?UTF-8?B?77+9IEhhdWJlcmc=?= <soren at hauberg dot org>
Cc: help at octave dot org
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 14:38:08 +0200

Søren Hauberg wrote:

>fre, 04 11 2005 kl. 12:13 +0100, skrev Miquel Cabanas:
>  
>
>>hi,
>>
>>there is an octave2.1 package available for Debian Sarge (3.1), that
>>contains octave v. 2.1.69-1.
>>    
>>
>Ubuntu has 2.1.71 in the stable release (breezy).
>
>/Søren
>
>  
>

True, but octave-forge in Ubuntu breezy is built using Octave 2.1.69

mcreel at yosemite:~$ sudo apt-cache showpkg octave-forge
Package: octave-forge
Versions:
2005.06.13-1(/var/lib/apt/lists/de.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_breezy_universe_binary-i386_Packages)

Reverse Depends:
  timecode-dev,octave-forge
Dependencies:
2005.06.13-1 - octave2.1 (2 2.1.69) atlas3-base (16 (null)) lapack3 (16 
(null)) liblapack.so.3 (0 (null)) atlas3-base (16 (null)) refblas3 (16 
(null)) libblas.so.3 (0 (null)) fftw3 (0 (null)) libc6 (2 2.3.4-1) 
libcln3c2 (2 1.1.6) libg2c0 (2 1:3.4.4) libgcc1 (2 1:4.0.0-7) libgmp3c2 
(0 (null)) libgsl0 (2 1.4) libhdf5-serial-1.6.4-0c2 (16 (null)) 
libhdf5-1.6.4-0 (0 (null)) libice6 (0 (null)) libjpeg62 (0 (null)) 
libncurses5 (2 5.4-5) libpng12-0 (2 1.2.8rel) libqhull5 (0 (null)) 
libreadline5 (0 (null)) libsm6 (0 (null)) libstdc++6 (2 4.0.0-10) 
libx11-6 (0 (null)) zlib1g (2 1:1.2.1) grace (0 (null)) octave-matcompat 
(0 (null))

I used to use Debian unstable, until it became too unstable. It's still 
in the throes of an API change, I believe, though that may be over now. 
I'm happy with Ubuntu, but I find that compiling octave-forge and other 
things is necessary. The Debian Octave packages are well-made, so any 
Debian derivative will give good performance. Right now the trick is to 
find a complete set of up-to-date packages.



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