On Saturday 30 October 2004 05:59, Branimir Vasilic wrote:
I do not understand how you derived that from her post which I quote below:
This is how my brilliant deduction worked :) (a selfdeprecating laugh - I
agree it wasn't clear from her post) :
What is blas rpm for ?
She doesn't want to use blas since she doesn't know what it is.
That is an assumption.
Do I need it to run scilab on my SuSE 9.1 PC ?
She hasn't installed scilab since if she could run it she would post the question.
You can't /run/ SciLab. You use it, because it is a library.
Because of the previous question I assumed she learned of blas because of dependencies that gave her trouble.
Better ask her first if that is the case. ;)
I googled for blas and scilab and installed it on my machine without problem from the non-rpm binary (I was interested to learn what the packages were). I agree that it's better to install from rpms if you can find working rpms but I haven't had too many problems installing rpms over source installations and vice-versa so I suggested she try that,
If I would want not want to use SuSE's scilab, but the one from the scilab site, I would first create an rpm package of it, and install that. That way I can better track of what is installed and what not. Cheers, Leen