On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 06:44:38PM +0300, Amit Aronovitch wrote: > Avraham Rosenberg wrote: > ... > > > But it seems that there's a ready-made amd64 Debian package for octave > (defaults to 2.1, but there's also a "octave2.9" package) too. > Did you try using it? (I don't use it, so would not know) > > Or do you need specific features that are only available on newer versions? > (Also, I don't know what's the specific interface to xv, but if it uses > the binary itself (rather than linking with the libraries), it should > also work cross-bitness - i.e. 64bit octave with 32bit xv or vice versa). > > It's true that the contents of the archive change alot, but I think > xfig was there for a long time. > I know that there were some issues with synchronization of the mirrors - > some stuff was available on main mirror but not on alioth (or was it the > other way around?), and the Israeli mirror was far behind for a while. > These problems should be over by now (since amd64 is now on the main > mirror, and officially supported for etch). > > Amit
Thanks again, Amit. Very likeky I looked for xfig, immediately after installing the system, when apt was configured for stable packages only. Anyway, I went immediately for it and for transfig. I was less lucky with octave2.9: "Package octave2.9 is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package octave2.9 has no installation candidate" The 64-bit octave2.1 does work with the 32-bit xv without problems. I still intend to try and build the 64-bit xv version, but this is not urgent matter. As for submitting it to debian, I am affraid that xv's licence is not "politically corect" enough for them. I prefer it, nevertheless, to display, when I wish to picture a measured or calculated distribution, because, according to my octave friends, display does some smoothing, by default, while xv doesn't. Cheers, Avraham ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
