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


From: David Bateman
Subject: Re: which Linux distribution offers the best octave-support?
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 12:25:24 +0100
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Javier Arantegui wrote:

Hello,

El Viernes, 4 de Noviembre de 2005 09:43, andreas naessl escribió:
i simply wan't to
minmize all that compilation / make - problems, cause i'm totally
unexperienced with that. someone said, SUSE would be a bit weak regarding
octave support.  would be Fedora or Debian be a better choice ?

I'm a SUSE user and totally clueless about compiling. But, I can compile Octave successfully. The process is quite easy (you just need to type 4 commands in a terminal) but slow.

Javier

The problem here is dependencies...You'll get a working octave, but it might be slower or incomplete. Do you have Atlas installed? If not it'll be slower. What if you want to build 2.9.x, do you have GLPK install, what about UFSparse? If not you'll miss out on some features. Having someone else already build the packages, they've already thought about and dealt with these dependencies. So yes building octave on an arbitrary platform might be easy enough, but unless you have a little experience you might not get the performance or completeness of a pre-packaged version...

Regards
David

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