"Paul C. Leopardi"
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