(In reply to Dieter Jurzitza from comment #7) > Hi Petr, > to come back to my first point: I am using 13.1 and have been trying to > compile the version you use for 13.2 - no way. openSUSE 13.1 contains Octave 3.6.4 without GUI. > But, if I am downloading the version from factory, everything is fine (apart > from the gzipped info files issue). > The difference shows here: > > octave-3.8.2-suitesparse-4.4.patch > This patch related only suitesparse libraries. If you want to use latest Octave version, you can use Science repository: http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=science&package=octave