Re: which Linux distribution offers the best octave-support?

[Miquel Cabanas]

hi,

there is an octave2.1 package available for Debian Sarge (3.1), that
contains octave v. 2.1.69-1.

Miquel


On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 19:40 +0900, Victor Munoz wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 09:55:57AM +0100, Gerald Ebberink wrote:
> > I personally use octave on SuSe, but the somenone you talked to is right 
> > you 
> > would have to compile it yourself. Fedora is nice but personally I would go 
> > for Debian (if you have the choice), this is just because there are more 
> > scientific packages available for Debian.
> > 
> 
> And if you're really worried about latest versions, or need specific
> features of latest Octave versions, then probably you should try Debian sid.
> I'm using the stable sarge version, and use Octave a lot, without problem.
> But it has octave version 2.0.17. Sid has 2.1.71.




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