John wrote: > This one is for EPEL 5 on there site. > http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/8177721/com/hdf5-1.6.7-1.el5.i38 > 6.rpm.html > I installed the hdf5 package off EPEL (via yum install hdf5) and my yum install octave still fails with the same error. Error: Missing Dependency: libhdf5.so.0 is needed by package octave when I look at that hdf5 package, I see... # rpm -ql hdf5 /usr/bin/gif2h5 /usr/bin/h52gif /usr/bin/h52gifgentst /usr/bin/h5cc /usr/bin/h5copy /usr/bin/h5debug /usr/bin/h5diff /usr/bin/h5dump /usr/bin/h5import /usr/bin/h5jam /usr/bin/h5ls /usr/bin/h5mkgrp /usr/bin/h5redeploy /usr/bin/h5repack /usr/bin/h5repart /usr/bin/h5stat /usr/bin/h5unjam /usr/lib/libhdf5.settings /usr/lib/libhdf5.so.5 /usr/lib/libhdf5.so.5.0.0 /usr/lib/libhdf5_hl.so.0 /usr/lib/libhdf5_hl.so.0.0.0 /usr/share/doc/hdf5-1.8.0 /usr/share/doc/hdf5-1.8.0/COPYING /usr/share/doc/hdf5-1.8.0/README.txt libhdf5.so.5 and .5.0.0 and _hl.so.0 != what octave is looking for. I know EPEL isn't a CentOS project, IIRC, its a Fedora/RH projecct but this isn't looking good.