Re: Octave under fedora 5

[Alexander Barth]

Nam-Ky Nguyen wrote:
> Sir/Madam,
>
> I got the following message when I invoke octave:
>
> address@hidden ~]$ octave
> octave: error while loading shared libraries: libgfortran.so.0: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> Please let me know how to fix the problem.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Regards,
>   
Hi,
I'm running octave on Fedora Core 5 as well.
Did you install octave from source, or using Fedora repositories with yum?

Octave on FC5 should not depend on libgfortran.so.0, instead it should 
use libgfortran.so.1.
Please send us the output of the following commands:

rpm -ql libgfortran

ldd $(which octave)

If you installed octave from source and you updated from FC4 to FC5, 
then you need the recompile octave. In order to avoid the recompilation 
after library upgrades, you can use "yum install octave" as root to 
install octave from the Fedora repositories.

regards
Alex