Re: failed octave installation on RH6.0

[Neil Davey]

On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Thierry Chateau wrote:

> hello,
> I have tried to install octave from a rpm package on a RH6.0 linux
> distribution.
> address@hidden chateau]$ su
> Password:
> address@hidden chateau]# rpm -i octave-2.0.13-3cl.i386.rpm
> address@hidden chateau]# exit
> exit
> address@hidden chateau]$ octave
> Octave, version 2.0.13 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu).
> Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998 John W. Eaton.
> This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> For details, type `warranty'.
> 
> error: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
> error: attempted clean up apparently failed -- aborting...
> Abandon
> address@hidden chateau]$
> 
> Do you have the same errors and how can i correct it ??

I had this problem after upgrading to RH6.0 from RH5.2, I think it is to
do with the libc libs (ie version 5 in RH5.2 and version 6 in RH6.0), just
download and build the 2.0.14 source on the system.... fixed my problem

regards
        Neil
 
> Thanks
> 
> Thierry CHATEAU
> 
> 
> 
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