On Oct 18, 2008, at 3:58 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > 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/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. > > Just to reassure you. I've had no problems with octave and hdf5 ( both from epel ). From what you've written, I don't think this it the problem, but just to be sure: are you running x86_64 and have installed i386 hdf5? Tony Schreiner