* Branimir Vasilic [10-29-04 21:10]:

You don't need an rpm. Just go to the scilab homepage

http://scilabsoft.inria.fr/

and download the Scilab-3.0 binary file version for Linux. After uncompressing it just type make and make install as root (it is already compiled). This worked for me.

Not a good idea. SuSE is an rpm based system and your method does not update the rpm database. A better idea would be to install the blas rpm available on the SuSE install disks or download direct from SuSE. pin blas-3 will provide you information on the package. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos

* Branimir Vasilic [10-29-04 21:44]:

It seemed from her e-mail that the SuSE rpms didn't work so that's why I suggested the binary install since it worked fine when I tried it.

I do not understand how you derived that from her post which I quote below: <quote> What is blas rpm for ? Do I need it to run scilab on my SuSE 9.1 PC ? Thank you very much Maura </quote> -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos

On Saturday 30 October 2004 05:59, Branimir Vasilic wrote:

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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) :

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What is  blas rpm  for ?

She doesn't want to use blas since she doesn't know what it is.

That is an assumption.

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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

On Saturday 30 October 2004 17:11, Branimir Vasilic wrote:

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She doesn't want to use blas since she doesn't know what it is.

That is an assumption.

Yes, yes. It was late, I was tired. My perfect vulcan logic failed :).

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You can't /run/ SciLab. You use it, because it is a library.

Are we talking about the same thing? I am running it right now. It's just a clone of Matlab.

Really? :} Hmm, I thought it was a library... Well, it was years ago when I had a look at it... Time to have a real good look. Ok, just visited http://scilabsoft.inria.fr/ (the site looks a lot more modern that from what I had in mind), and indeed, this 'proggy' is quite more than a library. Interesting! Well, I learned something. ;) Cheers, Leen