Re: Upgrading octave version

[Quentin Spencer]

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 11/04/2008, asha g <address@hidden> wrote:
>   
> > Checked rpms but for Red Hat Linux the Octave
> >  versionis 2.15 or so. There is no Octave 3.0.
> >     
>
> It sounds like you will have to compile Octave, then. You need to get
> all the development libraries that you were getting as warnings when
> you ran ./configure in your previous post. Hopefully they have all
> been packaged for RHEL and you can just use the packaged versions.
>
> Does RHEL ever synch up to the community-provided Fedora packages? Are
> you able to update your RHEL version? I'm just curious; probably the
> easiest solution will be to compile Octave yourself. If it doesn't
> compile, ask us again, and maybe we can fix it; otherwise, maybe you
> should update your RHEL version.
>   

There are EPEL packages for octave 3.0.0 in RHEL 5. For RHEL 4, you're 
stuck with 2.1.57 because that's the last version RH released, and EPEL 
has a policy of not replacing existing packages. So, Jordi is right, you 
either need to upgrade to RHEL 5 or compile octave yourself. If you do, 
the fftw3 libraries are available in EPEL 4, but all of the sparse 
matrix, glpk, qhull and other libraries will need to be compiled 
(assuming you actually need all of those functions--they are optional 
after all).

Quentin