Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge Development (fwd)

[Mark P. Esplin]

An other option is to try the Quantium live CD-Rom.   See 
(http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html).
That way you can try "delaunay" and see if it will do what you want without 
having to go through the pain of installing it.

                                  -Mark

On Friday 11 June 2004 12:14, Tom G. Smith (Smitty) wrote:
> I finally got a working octave, but only by using rpms, and even
> then I had to force it it ignore dependencies.  Without --nodeps I
> got this error:
>
>       error: Failed dependencies:
>               libqhull >= 0:2003.1 is needed by octave-forge-2004.02.12-2mdk
>
> But, as you can see below, the qhull I was installing *was* >= 2003.1, and
> I haven't located an rpm for a release any more recent than 2003.1-1:
>
>       rpm -Uvh --force octave-2.1.40-4.i386.rpm
>       rm -f /usr/local/bin/octave*
>       rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps \
>               octave-forge-2004.02.12-2mdk.i586.rpm \
>               GiNaC-1.1.6-1.i386.rpm \
>               qhull-2003.1-1.i386.rpm \
>               cln-1.1.6-1.i386.rpm \
>               cln-1.1.5-2.rh80.i386.rpm
>
>
>       Preparing...       ########################################### [100%]
>          1:cln           ########################################### [ 20%]
>          2:octave-forge  ########################################### [ 40%]
>          3:GiNaC         ########################################### [ 60%]
>          4:qhull         ########################################### [ 80%]
>          5:cln           ########################################### [100%]
>
> And after many days of work, I still don't have a solution to the original
> problem, namely that the researcher I'm working for wants to use delaunayn;
> it still comes up missing.
>
>



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