Tony Schreiner wrote:
> 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?
no, its i386
OH. looking again (having put this aside since last week)
# yum list hdf5
....
hdf5.i386 1.8.0-1.el5.rf
installed
looks like I got hdf5 from rpmforge :-/
ok,
# yum remove hdf5
# yum --disablerepo=rpmforge install octave octave-forge hdf5
has sorted it out. grrrrrr. once again epel does not play well with
others :(((