Re: Help with General Package in Octave 3.6.3

[Michael Goffioul]

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 8:13 PM, swfritz <address@hidden> wrote:

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso-2 wrote
> Which distribution are you using?
>
>
> http://wiki.octave.org/FAQ#I_cannot_install_a_package._Octave_complains_about_a_missing_mkoctfile.

I'm using OpenSUSE 12.3. I just found another help topic that suggested I
look at whether gcc-g++ was installed. I checked and it turns out it wasn't.
I installed the gcc-g++ package and now I get a different error when trying
to install the general package:

octave:2> pkg install general-1.3.2.tar.gz
In file included from /usr/include/octave-3.6.3/octave/../octave/ov.h:43:0,
                 from
/usr/include/octave-3.6.3/octave/../octave/oct-obj.h:34,
                 from
/usr/include/octave-3.6.3/octave/../octave/ov-fcn.h:32,
                 from
/usr/include/octave-3.6.3/octave/../octave/ov-builtin.h:28,
                 from
/usr/include/octave-3.6.3/octave/../octave/defun-int.h:28,
                 from
/usr/include/octave-3.6.3/octave/../octave/defun-dld.h:30,
                 from /usr/include/octave-3.6.3/octave/../octave/oct.h:36,
                 from SHA1.cc:8:
/usr/include/octave-3.6.3/octave/../octave/oct-hdf5.h:27:18: fatal error:
hdf5.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [SHA1.oct] Error 1
'make' returned the following error: make: Entering directory
`/tmp/oct-yrsj8k/general/src'
/usr/bin/mkoctfile-3.6.3 SHA1.cc
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/oct-yrsj8k/general/src'
error: called from `pkg>configure_make' in file
/usr/share/octave/3.6.3/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1385, column 9
error: called from:
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.6.3/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 827, column 5
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.6.3/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 383, column 9

I don't even know where to begin decoding this issue...

You're probably missing the hdf5 development package. I don't know how it's called under OpenSUSE, but there's probably a package manager that will help you find and install it.

Michael.