Jose, Hi. For GNU Octave, see a SuSE 8.1 FTP mirror, eg. ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/ftp.suse.com/i386/8.1/suse/i586 You should see octave-2.1.36-36.i586.rpm It looks like Octave was one of the packages left off the CDs, but included in the FTP version. It is not listed in INDEX.gz or at http://www.suse.de/us/private/products/suse_linux/i386/packages_professional... I answered the same question last month. The answer really should be in a FAQ. SuSE has a couple of pat answers for this type of question (see below), but I don't see how they apply to Octave, since Octave is GPL. See also : '[SLE] Is zzz All really "All" ?': http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Nov/2569.html and 'Why is software xy not on the CDs?' http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/software.html 'SuSE Linux 8.1: Why Is ... Not Included?' http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/why-not-81.html Octave http://www.octave.org/ Best regards
"Paul C. Leopardi" <leopardi@bigpond.net.au> writes:
For GNU Octave, see a SuSE 8.1 FTP mirror, eg. ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/ftp.suse.com/i386/8.1/suse/i586 You should see octave-2.1.36-36.i586.rpm It looks like Octave was one of the packages left off the CDs, but included in the FTP version.
It would be nice if SuSE could explain that. I miss 3 packages on 8.1 CDs: octave (numerical computations, http://www.octave.org/), rstatist (statistical computing, http://www.r-project.org/), and IDS (photo album website, http://ids.sourceforge.net/). I accept when a package is replaced by a more powerful one but in these cases no replacements were provided. If there wasn't enough space on 7 CDs then I prefer one of the following solutions: - more CDs - a separate "power pack" - online access to additional packages (fully integrated into YaST) I know how to compile and install packages by myself but I need to minimize administration time. I'm sending a Cc: to SuSE's feedback. -- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se
Op zaterdag 7 december 2002 17:11, schreef Alexandr Malusek:
I miss 3 packages on 8.1 CDs: octave (numerical computations, http://www.octave.org/), rstatist (statistical computing, http://www.r-project.org/), and IDS (photo album website, http://ids.sourceforge.net/). I accept when a package is replaced by a more powerful one but in these cases no replacements were provided.
FYI: r-project and ids are not provided via the ftp either. -- Richard
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