Re: Setting up Octave on linux.

[Dave Comer]

YES! An on Sun Solaris 2.5.1 too!

IMHO the trick is to have the correct GNU utilities installed.
In fact, this is what is stated in the INSTALL file that comes
with Octave. I rebuilt my entire GNU install tree (I don't
necessesarily recomend this) because the Redhat distribution
I had was based on a 1.0.x Kernel (I'm running 2.1.13). Once
you get the GNU install tree resolved (including libs).
It works greate.

Dave Comer
rt66.com

Tony Roberts wrote:
> 
> In article <address@hidden>, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone successfully installed Octave, a free Unix MATLAB like
> > package, on a linux system?  I installed the octave 2.0.2-2 RPM on my
> > redhat linux system (Redhat version 4.0), but it complained about
> > unresolved symbols in my Readline shared library.  I have the latest
> > Readline library - do I need to downgrade?
> >
> 
> Try asking such a question of the octave mailing list:
> address@hidden
> 
> In fact I will cross-post this there right now.
> 
>                                              Tony
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