tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34523784061952362502012-01-02T00:04:17.848-08:00Koredytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789186168842631491noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452378406195236250.post-37708868117407485742010-05-29T11:56:00.000-07:002011-11-15T13:43:47.168-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DGOnCNtEa_Y/TAFo_LRY46I/AAAAAAAAAGw/Ss-lMOc5e0o/s1600/Screenshot.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DGOnCNtEa_Y/TAFo_LRY46I/AAAAAAAAAGw/Ss-lMOc5e0o/s320/Screenshot.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476774056426005410" border="0" /></a><br />Just feel like sharing this because i have just learnt in the hard way a kindof.<br />I had this task of having to install octave on a redhat box. I opted to compiling the distribution from source so i downloaded from the octave website. After unpacking the downloaded file, it took me several hours trying to run configure. Didn't get configure to work and i googled again only to discover there have been hundreds of people in my shoes but without a solution in any of these online forums. After a successful configure some days later, i realised make wasn't going to work either. this led me to seeking an alternative. Since i had already configured my yum repository, i opted for a way to install octave using yum and conducted several google searches to no success, so i had no choice than to figure that myself in some way.<br /><br />Well, here is the solution<br />Since redhat has stopped the bundling of octave with the RHEL CD, that mean we have to go point redhat to where we can obtain it from. The good news is that the fedora project offers this service for free, i.e they have a collection of several optional packages that are third party and needed by several people. To point your local yum to this ftp service, go to http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/ and dowload the file epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm. Copy the file into your yum repository location, in my own case, it's in /var/ftp/pub/Server, where the location of my rpms are locally, because i already had an ftp server working on my local pc. then you run an rpm install of the file i.e rpm -ivh epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm. Once you install the epel rpm pakage, you now have access to all the packages that bundles with octave, including octave forge. Now do yum install octave* -y, ensure your system is online and yum will download all the necessary dependecies and files and your installation will run automatically. When done, octave is fully installed, reboot your pc and enjoy! Hope this helps. For further questions or help of any kind on this or any other *nix challenge, feel free to email me Olukorede Aguda (koredyte@gmail.com), I will be glad to help. Thanks.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3452378406195236250-3770886811740748574?l=koredyte.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Koredytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789186168842631491noreply@blogger.com2