Re: Binaries for SLES10

[Andreas Kuntzagk]

Hi,

> At my previous just I had to use SUSE as well, and getting Octave up and
> running was not a particular joyful experience. SUSE is just not very
> good at packaging basic scientific libraries, so you'll have to compile
> a lot of stuff yourself from scratch.

Yeah, but for this I need to find out what libraries are missing and 
where to get them.

> You can get some (semi-old) Octave RPM's for SUSE by searching at
>
>   http://software.opensuse.org/search

Ok, didn't know this page before. There seems to be some 3.0.3 binaries 
there. I'll try and come back with results.

> but (at least the last time I used them) they did not come with full
> functionality (no QHull and no suite-sparse as far as I remember).

Actually I don't know what functionality is required here. Have to 
investigate.

> I'm sorry that the answer isn't more satisfactory, but in my experience
> SUSE just isn't very good for scientific work :-(

Unfortunately changing distro is not an option right now. This is a big 
compute cluster (in production) and I can't start from scratch again. 
For the next time what distro do you propose for scientific computing?

regards, Andreas