Re: Prerequisites to 2.9.x

[Quentin Spencer]

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



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