Re: Octave on CentOS 6

[hvn]

On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:36:59 +0100, Martin Helm wrote:

> Am Dienstag, 1. November 2011, 20:14:30 schrieb hvn:
>> $ whereis libhdf5.so.6 libhdf5.so: /usr/lib/libhdf5.so
>> /usr/lib/libhdf5.so.7
> Your problem seems to be that your hdf5 is too much up to date, I bet
> that ls -l /usr/lib/libhdf5.so will give a symbolic link to
> libhdf5.so.7. I do not know exactly if Centos provides different
> versions of the hdf5 rpm's but you can try somewhat a hack of course to
> create a symlink to one of your .6 files like that ln -s
> /usr/lib/mpich2/lib/libhdf5.so.6 /usr/lib/libhdf5.so.6 (as root) and
> hope that it helps (run ldconfig afterwards just to be sure that the
> shared object cache will be updated).

Yes, that was the final solution I had in mind as well. I just think it's 
a bit dirty. For now Octave works.