Re: Installing octave on Linux

[Quentin Spencer]

I'm sending my response to the list in case others can offer additional 
help:

Martin Rosenberger wrote:

> I'll try to give you some more useful information:
>
> We do have 2 Linux Cluster with Linux Red Hat 8.0.
> Each of the cluster has about 16 nodes (one node has 2 CPUs).
>
> Usually the clusters are used for CFD (computational fluid dynamics) 
> calculations and for FEM (Finite Element Method) calculation in the crash area.
>
> Because of very very large calculation time of a Matlab routine I wrote we want 
> to do the calculations on our cluster. For this reason we want to install 
> octave on some nodes and do the calculations.
>
> Installation was done using the files from 
>
> ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/
>
> afterwards the commands
>
> configure
> make 
> make install
>
> were executed
>
> octave-forge was downloaded from a mirror page provided by
>
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2888
>
> octave-forge-2005.06.13.tar.gz
>
> octave-forge was installed in the same way:
>
> configure
> make 
> make install
>
> This was the procedure installing octave and octave-forge
>  

Well, if you installed both of them from source, I'm not sure what would 
have caused the error message you're seeing.
Maybe someone else has an idea.

> P. S.: A question that did arise, talking with my administrator is, do you have 
> or do you know where to get octave and octave-forge as an RPM package.
>  

Octave was included with RedHat 8.0, so you probably have it on the 
installation CDs, but RedHat 8 is very old, and the version of octave is 
likely to be as well. If there are any octave-forge RPMs for Red Hat 8 
in existence (they weren't included with the distribution), the same 
thing is probably true. You can get up to date versions of octave and 
octave-forge in RPM format in Fedora Extras if you install Fedora Core.

-Quentin



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