[ale] anyone running Octave ?

[jkinney at localnetsolutions.com (James P. Kinney III)]

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 10:41 -0500, Mills, John M. wrote:
> Courtney -
> 
> I installed Octave 2.1.57 from 'rpm's on a FC3 box. The only bump in my
> installation was that Octave expects to have a 'lightweight' version of
> LAPACK available (and the industrial-strength model too, IIRC) and I had
> a couple of runs to get those dependencies sorted out. I ran a few tests
> with no problems, but haven't put it to more use.
> 
> The reason [I didn't use it] is that I was porting a MATLAB model and
> used Scilab instead. Depending on what you're doing, you may want to
> look into Scilab and its 'Scicos' tool (www.scilab.org).

Thanks for the pointers!! Wish I had been able to use this in grad
school. Scicos looks _very_ exciting.

> 
>  - Mills
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Courtney Thomas
> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 9:04 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: [ale] anyone running Octave ?
> 
> I just downloaded version 2.1.72 but have not installed it.
> 
> Any recommendations, caveats, etc. ?
> 
> Thank you,
> Courtney
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