When I upgraded to openSUSE 12.1 (from 11.4), the “ocatave” application was lost. I can’t seem to find it in the new repositories, although a graphical front-end for it was present. I saw that “octave” was being deleted in the upgrade process, but dediced to continue because it isn’t essential to me at the moment.
Perhaps this was a consequence of the discontinuation of “contrib”? I’ll look at another 11.4 system soon, and see which repository provided “octave”. In the meanwhile, I recommend that people look at the proposed package changes in the upgrade process, and postpone the upgrade if something important to them is going to be deleted.
Do you mean the programming language? If so, did you try the factory version?
octave
openSUSE:Factory:Contrib/standard
1-Click Install
Download de pacote manual
Ir para o Projeto openSUSE Build Service
i586 octave-3.2.4-1.68.i586.rpm
src octave-3.2.4-1.68.src.rpm
x86_64 octave-3.2.4-1.68.x86_64.rpm
There’s also a tumbleweed version in packman, which should currently match 12.1.
Am 17.11.2011 05:46, schrieb brunomcl:
>
> Do you mean the programming language? If so, did you try the factory
> version?
>
>
> Code: -------------------- octave openSUSE:Factory:Contrib/standard
> 1-Click Install Download de pacote manual Ir para o Projeto openSUSE
> Build Service i586 octave-3.2.4-1.68.i586.rpm src
> octave-3.2.4-1.68.src.rpm x86_64 octave-3.2.4-1.68.x86_64.rpm
> --------------------
>
>
> There’s also a tumbleweed version in packman, which should currently
> match 12.1.
>
This is an old version, I can not recommend its use it contains some old
problems which are solved for a long time in the 3.4 versions (current
stable is 3.4.3). At the moment there was/is a discussion with the
maintainer of the openSUSE science repository at the octave mailing
lists about a qhull problem (which the packager solved as far as he
reported to us).
My advise would be to compile octave from the sources for the moment if
it is urgent (or you have special needs as I do and need some additional
configure flags) or just wait a little bit until the science repository
for 12.1 is fully populated and take the version then from that. I don’t
think this will be a long time until it is available there.
–
PC: oS 11.4 (dual boot 12.1) 64 bit | Intel Core i7-2600@3.40GHz | KDE
4.6.0 | GeForce GT 420 | 16GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.7.3 |
nVidia ION | 3GB Ram
Thank you for the information about the science repository. I had overlooked its existence.
When the science repository is fully populated, will it be added to the list of available repositories that appears when one selects Yast->Software->Software Repositories->Add->Community Repositories? It is not currently on that list.
Am 21.11.2011 22:26, schrieb CraigMiloRogers:
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> In opensuse 11.4, there were two sources for “octave” in the standard
> repository set (openSESU repositories+ packman): Contrib and packman.
>
> in openSUSE 21.1, the contrib repository is gone, and the packman
> repository (packman/suse/12.1) doesn’t contain “octave”, either.
>
>
Don’t use them, I am a long year octave user, I always compile it myself
but also test the packman/contrib builds a bit. They are never as
feature complete as the one from the science repo which is specialized
on scientific software.
Just my 2ct
–
PC: oS 11.4 (dual boot 12.1) 64 bit | Intel Core i7-2600@3.40GHz | KDE
4.6.0 | GeForce GT 420 | 16GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.7.3 |
nVidia ION | 3GB Ram
When the science repository is fully populated, will it be added to the list of available repositories that appears when one selects Yast->Software->Software Repositories->Add->Community Repositories? It is not currently on that list.