Octave and Scientific Linux

[Wim Janssen]

Hello Folks,

As a system-administrator I got several questions and requests
to have the Octave-package installed on our workstation-computers.
I think that's a very good suggestion and  I-am very positive about this.
But unfortunately I was not able to install this package on our 
workstations.
As you know Scientific Linux is very close to the RedHat Distribution,
but it is made more mature to face the high demands on Cern where this
Linux-distribution originates.

Here is my try-to-have-it installed session:
 - Installation from the source-rpm
   address@hidden octave-modules]# rpmbuild --rebuild --target i686 
--define \
   > "kernel_topdir /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.1.6.el5/build" \
   > /root/octave-modules/octave-3.0.1-2.el5.src.rpm
   Installing /root/octave-modules/octave-3.0.1-2.el5.src.rpm
   warning: InstallSourcePackage: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key 
ID 217521    warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
   warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
   warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
   warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
   Building target platforms: i686
   Building for target i686
   error: Failed build dependencies:
        hdf5-devel is needed by octave-3.0.1-2.i686
  address@hidden octave-modules]#

- I don't know where to find the proper hdf5-devel module for my 
SL-distribution.

- Building Octave completely from source.
 The ./configure runs okay.
  The 'make' runs very long without errors but than stumbles and stops 
a few inches
  before reaching the finish-line. :-(

Help is very Welcome

Kind regards,
                                                       Wim Janssen

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