octave+lapack+Tex problems together

[crocusino]

Hi,

I am trying Salix (I am also new to Slackworld) and experience this problem:

I need octave so I tried to build it by Sourcery.

1. It failed, since lapack (I found the package comes from the Salix pkg repo - not the Slack's) had missing softlink from liblapack.so.3.3.0 to liblapack.so.3 or so.
The octave SlackBuild mainainer advised to upgrade lapack from the Slackbuilds (ver. 3.3.1) and this issue has been solved.

2. Nevertheless after another couple of long-lasting trials the octave still fails to build, since obviously it requires some TeX to be installed. But neither the tetex package nor texlive.SlackBuild provided any binaries (just fonts and macros...).

To summarize my report:

- could you please upgrade lapack pkg to that one from slackbuilds? (Since after updating the repo info the gslapt tool suggests to "upgrade my lapack.3.3.1 to lapack.3.3.0 - which is broken)
- could you please check there is some tex package or slackbuild that really provides tex executables?

Thank you,

JS

[tsuren]

installing livetex is actually very simple, and you do not need to have a package ready for this.
1) download livetex as an iso
2) create a directory you want to unpack the iso
3) unpack iso as "mount -o loop livetex_etc.iso" as the superuser
4) in the directory, run on the command line, ./intall-tl

follow the instruction. essentially you need to change the directory where you wish to install texlive.

your octave and lapack should work after that.

[crocusino]

Well, the tetex package really contains the *tex executables (perhaps some error in the installation when I first tried).

So now also the octave builds fine.

What remains unfixed: To remove the lapack.3.3.0 package from the salix repo and provide the lapack.3.3.1 from the slackbuilds, since the former has broken links.

BTW is this the right place to report such a bug or do I have to register to some buglist or so?

Thank you,
JS

[lmello]

Have you tried out my octave packages?

http://people.salixos.org/lmello/pkg/ap/octave/ and http://people.salixos.org/lmello/pkg/l/