Re: I can?t install it

[Quentin Spencer]

Mike Miller wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
>
> >   This is why I used Debian GNU/Linux.  You can install Octave with
> >
> >     apt-get install octave
> >
> >   That's it.
> >
> > and in Fedora you'd do
> >             yum install octave
> >
> > Redhat's up2date does it too, as well as  SUSE's yast.
>
> Do these methods also work for octave-forge?

Not yet, unfortunately. There is now a Fedora Extras repository that 
contains add-on packages for various Fedora versions (and RHEL IIRC). 
The problem right now is that its all new, and they are a bit 
disorganized. The intention is to have a Debian-like server with lots of 
pre-compiled software. I have volunteered to maintain an octave-forge 
package, but they have been slow in responding requests for access to 
their CVS server. I have RPMs for octave-forge and some related 
packages, but the only web server I have access to at the moment is 
provided by my ISP and has only 11 MB of space. If anyone has access to 
a server where they could put these RPMS, I would be happy to make them 
available.

Also, in the test release of Fedora Core 4 that came out this week, 
octave has been removed from the core distribution.

-Quentin



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