070703 - GNUPlot, GLPK and Octave

[easuter]

hanumizzle packaged GNUPlot, GLPK and Octave for the repos. Available from the testing repository:

Package: http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-5.8/testing/x-apps/gnuplot-4.2.0-i586-1.tlz

Code:

gnuplot: gnuplot 4.2.0
gnuplot:
gnuplot: gnuplot is a command-driven interactive plotting program targetted
gnuplot: mainly at the visualization of scientific data. Despite its name, it
gnuplot: has no significant connection to the GNU Project, and indeed is
gnuplot: covered by a liberal, but technically 'non-free' license.
gnuplot:
gnuplot: BUILD_DATE: Sat Jun 30 12:23:36 EST 2007
gnuplot: PACKAGER: hanumizzle
gnuplot: HOST: Linux 2.6.18.5 i686
gnuplot: DISTRO: Vector Linux 5.8 Standard   12-16-2006
gnuplot: CFLAGS: -O2 -march=i586 -mtune=i686
gnuplot: BUILD_COMMAND: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --bindir=/usr/bin --libdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var --mandir=/usr/man --with-included-gettext

Package: http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-5.8/testing/x-apps/octave-2.9.12-i586-1.tlz

Code:

octave: octave 2.9.12
octave:
octave: From the README: "GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily
octave: intended for numerical computations.  It provides a convenient command
octave: line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically."
octave:
octave: BUILD_DATE: Sun Jul  1 12:51:36 EST 2007
octave: PACKAGER: hanumizzle
octave: HOST: Linux 2.6.18.5 i686
octave: DISTRO: Vector Linux 5.8 Standard   12-16-2006
octave: CFLAGS: -O2 -march=i586 -mtune=i686
octave: BUILD_COMMAND: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --bindir=/usr/bin --libdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var --mandir=/usr/man --with-included-gettext

Package: http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-5.8/testing/libs/glpk-4.18-i586-1.tlz

Code:

glpk: glpk 4.18
glpk:
glpk: BUILD_DATE: Thu Jun 28 15:43:31 EST 2007
glpk: PACKAGER: anonymous
glpk: HOST: Linux 2.6.18.5 i686
glpk: DISTRO: Vector Linux 5.8 Standard   12-16-2006
glpk: CFLAGS: -O2 -march=i586 -mtune=i686
glpk: BUILD_COMMAND: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --bindir=/usr/bin --libdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var --mandir=/usr/man --with-included-gettext

Post comments for these packages here.

[wcs]

Great!
Thanks, Hanu.

[Colonel Panic]

Is Octave complete in itself or does it need extra libraries? I've not been able to get it to run so far.

[easuter]

What errors do you get when running it in a terminal?

[Colonel Panic]

Thanks for replying.

It seems to be missing a file; liblapack.so.3.

[easuter]

Whats the output of:

Code:

ls /var/log/packages | grep lapack

[Colonel Panic]

Thanks for replying.

There's no output. Does that mean I'm missing a package?

[easuter]

Yeah, try installing lapack from the repo, using:

Code:

slapt-get --install lapack

This is most likely a missing depepndecy in the GNUPlot package.

[Colonel Panic]

Thanks, but it may have to wait until I've got enough free online time for a 9 MB download(I'm on dialup).

[Colonel Panic]

I'm admittedly not familiar with slapt-get, but it didn't find the lapack file. I downloaded lapack from source and found I was unable to complile it (no configure etc.).

[easuter]

Do you have the testing repository enabled (and did you refresh the package list)?
If you want to download the lapack and blas packages manually, then read the announcement here:

http://www.vectorlinux.com/forum2/index.php?topic=3401.0

[Colonel Panic]

No, I didn't do either of those things. I may try it before downloading those sources though, that way I'm learning more about how Linux works. Thanks for replying.

[easuter]

Yeah, building both blas and lapack is a sticky business (aside from needing the fortran compiler, the provided Makefiles need to be extensively modified so that shared libraries can be built).