On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, guran wrote:
> I was going to do some math and wanted to look at Octave, but I had unsolved
> depencies in both Mdk 8.0 and 8.1.
>
> [root@Archimedes contrib]# rpm -ivh octave-2.0.16-10mdk.i586.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
> libstdc++-libc6.2-1.so.2 is needed by octave-2.0.16-10mdk
>
> With regard to the very restricted math libraries used in octave it is
> perhaps not so easy to change library - but even if old it could be in
> contrib.
Seems octave 2.0.16 was WAY too old. octave 2.1.x was there for quite long
time ago. But probably because not many people here cared about scientific
calculation so nobody was paying attention to this package.
Abel
