Re: Octave under fedora 5

[Quentin Spencer]

Nam-Ky Nguyen wrote:
> I used what you suggested with Fedora 4 and octave worked. Now I am under
> Fedora 5 and this does not work. Below are the error messages I got on my
> computer screen. Thank you very much for your help.
>
> Regards,
> Nam Nguyen
>
> address@hidden Desktop]# rpm -e octave
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libcruft.so is needed by (installed)
> octave-forge-2006.07.09-2.fc5.i386
>         liboctave.so is needed by (installed)
> octave-forge-2006.07.09-2.fc5.i386
>         liboctinterp.so is needed by (installed)
> octave-forge-2006.07.09-2.fc5.i386
>         octave >= 2.9.6 is needed by (installed)
> octave-forge-2006.07.09-2.fc5.i386
> address@hidden Desktop]# yum install octave
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> extras                                                               [1/3]
> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: extras
> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: extras
>   

Hmm, that error suggests you don't have the fedora-release package 
installed, which I thought was required. See if you can download the RPM 
and install it from one of the mirrors. After that is set up, then yum 
should work properly. I'm guessing you may have the FC4 version of 
octave installed. After you have yum working correctly, you could try 
upgrading octave using "yum update octave".

Quentin