[CentOS-devel] Octave for CentOS5

On Mar 6, 2007, at 4:49 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote:

> Apparently Octave has been orphaned by the upstream for EL5 ,  
> although it is still in Fedora Extras.  It does successfully build  
> from FC6/7 src.rpm packages under CentOS5 beta, albeit with a few  
> additional requirements...
>
> SRPMS:
> fftw-3.1.2-3.fc6.src.rpm
> glpk-4.13-1.fc6.src.rpm
> hdf5-1.6.5-7.fc7.src.rpm
> octave-2.9.9-1.fc6.src.rpm
> ufsparse-2.1.1-1.fc6.src.rpm
>
> RPMS:
> fftw-3.1.2-3.el5.i386.rpm
> fftw-debuginfo-3.1.2-3.el5.i386.rpm
> fftw-devel-3.1.2-3.el5.i386.rpm
> glpk-debuginfo-4.13-1.el5.i386.rpm
> glpk-devel-4.13-1.el5.i386.rpm
> glpk-utils-4.13-1.el5.i386.rpm
> hdf5-1.6.5-7.el5.i386.rpm
> hdf5-debuginfo-1.6.5-7.el5.i386.rpm
> hdf5-devel-1.6.5-7.el5.i386.rpm
> octave-2.9.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
> octave-debuginfo-2.9.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
> octave-devel-2.9.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
> ufsparse-2.1.1-1.el5.i386.rpm
> ufsparse-debuginfo-2.1.1-1.el5.i386.rpm
> ufsparse-devel-2.1.1-1.el5.i386.rpm
>
> Is there interest in adding this to centosplus?  Or perhaps Dag or  
> Karanbir will pick it up?  I will be building it locally anyway, if  
> it is not available elsewhere, so could help with keeping updated.
>
> Phil

Hi Phil, if it is still in Fedora Extras, I imagine it will show up  
in EPEL once it is publicly available...

http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/

-Jeff