Re: [OctDev] arpack install failed (Ubuntu) Fixed

2008-12-05 Thread R.N.Palmer
> I have a symlink libarpack.so pointing to libarpack.so.2.1 in my > debian/sid. Does creating it help? Yes, that made it work. (It appears the problem was that I installed the non-dev version: libarpack2-dev automatically creates this link but libarpack2 doesn't.) To prevent others having the

Re: [OctDev] Bug in quadndg

2008-12-04 Thread R.N.Palmer
The real issue here is what is "tol" supposed to mean? The quadndg documentation simply calls it a tolerance parameter. The existing quadndg is relative tolerance=tol, absolute tolerance=0; as you correctly observe, an absolute tolerance of 0 means integrals with a value of 0 have no tolerance

Re: [OctDev] arpack install failed (Ubuntu)

2008-12-04 Thread R.N.Palmer
Debian have already agreed that the new license is free: the ARPACK library (but not this Octave binding) has now been re-added to Debian unstable, after being removed when someone noticed the old license's restrictions a few months ago. http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/arpack.html http://bugs.debia

Re: [OctDev] arpack install failed (Ubuntu)

2008-12-03 Thread R.N.Palmer
> It expects things to be installed in your library path. If you've > installed it elsewhere, you can set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH or LIBRARY_PATH > environment variables to point to where you've installed it. That (along with renaming the library to libarpack.a; the default is libarpack_$(PLAT).a) f

Re: [OctDev] arpack install failed (Ubuntu)

2008-12-02 Thread R.N.Palmer
> Could you check that you have these > development files installed. I think they're called 'libsuitesparse-dev' > or something like that. Installing this package fixed this error, but I now have a new one: it can't find -larpack. Where does it expect this to be installed? This error occurs bo

Re: [OctDev] arpack install failed (Ubuntu)

2008-12-02 Thread R.N.Palmer
> Looks like you haven't installed the Octave development files for > Octave. I think the package is called 'octave3.0headers' (or something > like that) in Ubuntu. Install that and try again. octave3.0-headers, and it was already installed. As a test I also tried installing the linear-algebra Oc

[OctDev] arpack install failed (Ubuntu)

2008-12-02 Thread R.N.Palmer
How is the arpack package supposed to be installed? If I try to install it from within Octave as in the Octave-Forge instructions, I get several error messages, as below; if I try to install it using make as suggested in its makefile, this appears to succeed but I can't then use the package. U