Octave support (was Re: [CentOS] When will CentOS 5 Plus be available?)

Wed Feb 13 18:31:14 UTC 2008
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Feb 13, 2008 10:26 AM, Primorec <igor.furlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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> On Feb 13, 2008 12:16 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
> >
> > Primorec wrote:
> > > Not the best solution...   but it works (as of Feb 12 2008)
> > >  wget
> > >
> ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/centos.karan.org/el5/extras/testing/i386/RPMS/ufsparse-2.1.1-1.el5.kb.i386.rpm
> > >  wget
> > >
> ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/centos.karan.org/el5/extras/testing/i386/RPMS/qhull-2003.1-6.el5.kb.i386.rpm
> > >  wget
> > >
> http://centos.karan.org/el5/extras/testing/i386/RPMS/glpk-4.15-1.el5.kb.i386.rpm
> > >  wget
> > >
> http://centos.karan.org/el5/extras/testing/i386/RPMS/fftw-3.1.2-3.el5.kb.i386.rpm
> > >  wget
> > >
> http://centos.karan.org/el5/extras/testing/i386/RPMS/hdf5-1.6.5-7.el5.kb.i386.rpm
> > >  wget
> > >
> ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/epel/5/i386/octave-3.0.0-2.el5.i386.rpm
> > >
> > > and then as root
> > >
> > > rpm -i *.rpm
> > >
> >
> > why not just setup the repository and then :
> >
> > yum install octave
> >
> >
> > --
> > Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> Is there a 'step_by_step' instruction to set up the repository ?
> In other words, what do I have to add to the yum.conf file to enable
> 'karan's'  repository ?

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