For clarity: are you installing octave from the binary distribution (i.e. using apt-get or dselect)? If so, then I believe the problem with gnuplot is that its license doesn't allow binary distribution, and so it's not available that way. Check out
http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/users-guide/packages.php#bin-exceptions On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 10:42, David Spielberg wrote: > I am trying to download Octave, as I have a number of MatLab > assignments upcoming in a linear algebra course. > I can't seem to get it because it has multiple dependent packages and a > number aren't going through. > It's having trouble with fftw, and claims gnuplot can't be found. > > Any advice? Does this simply mean that the packages that Octave needs > to run just aren't available and there's no way around it? > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > The Definitive IT and Networking Event. Be There! > NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas 2003 -- Register today! > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?keyn0001en > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Definitive IT and Networking Event. Be There! NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas 2003 -- Register today! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?keyn0001en _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
