Re: Help installing testing tarball from 25 July 2007 on red hat ent. linux 5, amd64

[Quentin Spencer]

Quentin Spencer wrote:
> I don't know what's causing your compilation problems, but I thought I'd 
> point out that the Fedora project has started a project called Extra 
> Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL), which provides packages from 
> Fedora compiled for RHEL (and its derivatives like CentOS). In the last 
> couple of days, a build of octave-2.9.13 has been released into the EPEL 
> 5 repository, complete with all of the sparse bells and whistles. You 
> can find more information on EPEL and how to install packages from it at:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Quentin
>   

I should also add there that I don't have an octave-forge packge ready 
yet. I'm currently deciding how to proceed with packaging given the new 
package structure in octave-forge. On the other hand, the package system 
seems to work well enough that should you need any particular parts of 
octave forge it should be straightforward to install them yourself.


Quentin