Re: Help with General Package in Octave 3.6.3

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- On Tue, 5/7/13, swfritz <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: swfritz <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Help with General Package in Octave 3.6.3
> To: address@hidden
> Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 5:13 PM
> 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...
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
> 
> 
"I don't even know where to begin decoding this issue..." - from reading the

hdf5.h: No such file or directory

error message.

You have to determine which source package contains the file and install the 
package.


Start from

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hdf5.h+opensuse+RPM

search query.

Regards,
  Sergei.