Re: Octave under fedora 5

[Quentin Spencer]

Nam-Ky Nguyen wrote:

> I got the following message when I invoke octave:
>
> address@hidden ~]$ octave
> octave: error while loading shared libraries: libgfortran.so.0: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> Please let me know how to fix the problem.
>  

Where did you get the version of octave you installed? Octave is 
available from Fedora Extras, but the Fedora version requires 
libgfortran.so.1, which means that you somehow installed an old version 
that was not compiled for Fedora Core 5, and managed to install it 
without installing libgfortran. I would recommend that you uninstall 
whatever you have on your system, and install the official Fedora 
package, which can be installed by running the command "yum install 
octave" as root. It will download octave and all of the necessary 
dependencies and install them for you.

Quentin