Re: Getting working version?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 03:55:07PM -0800, James Frye wrote:
> Is there any way to simply get a working binary distribution, say a Linux
> RPM, or even just everything in a .tgz file?  The octave.org page says
> that binaries are available from Linux vendors, but I can't find any sign
> of them on either the SuSe or Red Hat web sites.  There is an older binary
> on the distribution CD (2.0.14 or some such), but that doesn't work at
> all.

I cannot speak for the other distros, but I have been releasing Debian
packages pretty much on the day of JWE's releases for a few years now.

As there are converters for translating to and from .deb and .rpm packages,
you could give these a shot from, say, http://packages.debian.org/octave2.1 
and feed them into alien [ one of those converters ].

While I don't typically follow CVS releases, I don't think I ever had a
problem building Octave on current Debian machines.  

>From what I read here and on other lists devoted to numerical/scientific
software, Red Hat sometimes has compiler issues and SuSE sometimes forgets
or drops things like header packages for ncurses or readline. 

Hope this helps,  Dirk

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                                             -- Niels Bohr



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