Re: Installation problems

[Alexander Barth]

Hi Frank,
It happened that I also installed octave on a SUSE box today. I have had 
the same problem as you. But it is not distribution specific since it 
happens on Fedora too 
(https://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/attachments/20060711/a497fe96/attachment-0001.html).

The luinc function crashes if UMFPACK is not installed. I don't use 
sparse matrices so I ignored this problem. Besides this problem, octave 
actually works fine. If you need UMFPACK you can get it here: 
http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/umfpack.

As far as I know, lapack and blas aren't required either since octave 
source package comes with the lapack and blas sources (which are used if 
no blas and lapack libraries are already installed on the system).

However, I had no luck with the optional ATLAS libraries (a specialized 
tuned version of the blas + lapack libraries).

Alex


frank wang wrote:
> Thanks for the help.
>  
> I am using SUSE 10.1. I just downloaded the octave packages and try to 
> build it. I think that I do not have lapack/blas/ufsparse, etc. 
> package installed.
>  
> Could you tell me what packages I need to install? I want to install 
> Octave in the best way so I can port my matlab code to octave.
>  
> Thanks
>  
> Frank
>
>  
> On 8/4/06, *Dmitri A. Sergatskov* <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     On 8/4/06, frank wang <address@hidden
>     <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>     >
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > Thanks for the help on the gfortran and configure can find it now.
>
>     You are posting to the wrong mailing list. help-octave (General
>     discussion about using and installing Octave) would be more
>     appropriate.
>
>     >
>     > However, I still have problems with installation. The configure
>     cannot find
>     > readline package, even though I have installed it and the rpm -q
>     readline
>     > said it is readline-5.1-22 . The same thing happens for ncurses,
>     termcap that
>     > configure cannot find them even though they are installed. Can
>     someone help
>     > me to figure this out?
>
>     You need to install development libraries. Those usually have names
>     like readline-devel
>     and so on.
>
>     >
>     > Also, I used --disable-readline and configure worked. After the
>     make command
>     > successfully build the package, I typed make check. Then I got:
>     >
>     > src/DLD_FUNCTIONS/luinc.cc.........................panic:
>     > Segmentation falut.
>     >
>
>     This may happen if your lapack/blas/ufsparse libraries were compiled
>     by a different
>     gcc compiler than the one used to compile octave.
>     Then there are 10000 other possibilities, but we could not tell
>     since you
>     did not provide any details.
>
>
>     > Thanks
>     >
>     >
>     > Frank
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Dmitri.
>     --


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