From help-request at octave dot org Tue Jan 10 09:29:18 2006 Subject: Re: Prerequisites to 2.9.x From: Shai Ayal To: Quentin Spencer Cc: help at octave dot org Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:33:38 +0200 thanks Quentin, I am using these SRPMS now. now to compile octave ... Quentin Spencer wrote: > Andy Adler wrote: > >> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, David Bateman wrote: >> >> >>> In addition to the 2.1.x dependencies you need GLPK and UFSPARSE. You >>> might also like to install METIS prior to UFSPARSE to get a faster >>> sparse cholesky factorization, though there are licensing issues with >>> that... I can send source RPMs of UFSPARSE and METIS, though as they are >>> lareg I prefer to do that offline. Tell me if you want them. >>> >> >> I would prefer to see these source RPMs available to all in an >> easy way. If they are large for the list, I would be happy to host >> a 'compiling 2.9.x utilities' page on my website. >> >> > > For those interested in SRPMs of 2.9.x and dependencies, the development > tree of Fedora (soon to be Fedora Core 5) has them. They can be found at > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/development/SRPMS/ > . > This includes SRPMS for ufsparse and glpk. The octave-forge SRPM that is > currently in there is an old one that won't build with all of the other > stuff installed--I'll update it as soon as we have a 2.9.x-compatible > release. Everything else should work--I use these SRPMS on my FC4 > system. When FC5 is released in March, these will be the official Fedora > Extras releases. I'm hoping that 2.9.x will be considered the testing > release (or at least close to it) by then. > > -Quentin > -- Shai Ayal, Ph.D. Head of Research BioControl Medical BCM 3 Geron St. Yehud 56100 ISRAEL Tel: + 972 3 6322 126 ext 223 Fax: + 972 3 6322 125 email: shaia at biocontrol dot co dot il ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------