SUSE 9.0 Enterprise 64-bit and Octave installation with Readline 5

[Richard Flurey]

Hi folks,

 

I am wondering if anyone can give me some advice with regards to installing Octave on a SUSE 9.0 Enterprise 64-bit linux installation. I am fairly new to all this and am a bit of a beginner when it comes to linux but I have been given the task of administrating an IBM xseries cluster. Each node has AMD Opteron processors and I am wondering how I am able to get a working 64 version of Octave. I have tried several different RPMS and forcefully installed Readline 5 over the default 4.3 but most of them produce a 'Segmentation error' when i attempt to run octave. The only thing that works is the mkoctfile for compiling the .cc source files. However, when I installed octave-2.1.55-19.i586.rpm the octave command line ran successfully but I was unable to compile any .cc files because it specified that the architecture was wrong. I've hunted everywhere on google for ideas and so far nothing I've tried has worked. Has anyone had experience with this and know exactly how I might fix this?

The only thing I haven't tried is rebuilding entire libraries on the system so that I can upgrade GCC, glibc etc but I'd really like to avoid that if possible..

 

Cheers,

 

Richard (cluster virgin)