Re: Q. Re Octave-Forge

[Quentin Spencer]

Terry Duell wrote:

> The web link talks about Octave 2.1.71 and Octage-forge being provided with
> Fedora Core 4. I have just got hold of FC4 on DVD and Octave or Octave-forge
> rpms are nowhere to be seen. Perhaps I have misunderstood. Do they have to
> be downloaded from a RedHat website?
>  

Yes (or one of the Fedora mirrors). Octave and related programs are part 
of "Fedora Extras", which is a growing collection of software designed 
to work on Fedora Core. You can install programs from Fedora Extras 
using the "yum" utility, which is similar to Debian's apt-get. From a 
command prompt (as root), you should be able to install octave and 
octave-forge (and all the other dependencies) with a simple "yum install 
octave-forge". This will automatically select one of the mirrors, 
calculate all of the dependencies, and install everything you need.

-Quentin



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