Re: Octave 3.2.3 and gnuplot 4.2.6 on the N900
 

I didn't thought of using your packages, as I am unfamiliar with using Linux (I dont have a linux os install in any of my computers yet)..so doing everything on the N900 seems like the only option for me..

and saying that, would you know why it is returning the GINAC error while trying to install the package?

Re: Octave 3.2.3 and gnuplot 4.2.6 on the N900
 

mdziaf. Usually you can find if some package description mentions pkg-config by using "apt-cache search pkg-config" (after activating extras-devel if you usually have it inactive).

Lardman, I agree with you, however I am new here, and I haven't still not installed the SDK on my computer, so no idea of how to do that, but i guess, it will be similar and removing any risk/needing of installing devel libraries on the device...

Re: Octave 3.2.3 and gnuplot 4.2.6 on the N900
 

It tried to build the package from source on your N900, the GINAC error is probably because that header (and library) is missing. Also it looks like it does need pkg-config so install that as antviro says.

Re: Octave 3.2.3 and gnuplot 4.2.6 on the N900
 

It's not risk, just that compiling on-device is slower and requires more space for all the build tools. It would be better to just pre-compile whichever packages people want. Now whether one can easily package them up as debs once compiled I don't know.

Re: Octave 3.2.3 and gnuplot 4.2.6 on the N900
 

Sorry I didn't realised the error was on GINAC library, I though it was the pkg-config when using it with GINAC.

Anyway, I see you are trying to install the "symbolic toolbox", in Debian it has some libraries requirements. One of them is the GINAC library that is called libginac (in fact, libginac1.5)

At my computer:
apt-cache show octave-symbolic
[...]
Depends: libblas3gf | libblas.so.3gf | libatlas3gf-base, libc6 (>= 2.1.3), libcln6, libfftw3-3, libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libgfortran3 (>= 4.3), libginac1.5 (>= 1.5.0), libhdf5-serial-1.8.4 | libhdf5-1.8.4, liblapack3gf | liblapack.so.3gf | libatlas3gf-base, libncurses5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3), libreadline6 (>= 6.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.4.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), octave3.2 (>= 3.2.0-1)
Description: symbolic package for Octave
[...]

So, I suggest you to look for libginac on extras-devel.
By the way, if you consider interesting lardman advice (that i think it would make things easier) you could install a virtual system on your desktop using, for instance, virtualbox...

Re: Octave 3.2.3 and gnuplot 4.2.6 on the N900
 

If someone reminds me next week I'll have a look at how difficult it will be to package them up (bit busy for the rest of this week.)

Re: Octave 3.2.3 and gnuplot 4.2.6 on the N900
 

I had a go at trying to find libginac and pkg-config from extra devels..i'm assuming that to get these two, i would have to do the apt-get install inside the xterminal, but i got unable to find libginac (i also tried libginac1.5)?

are pkg-config and libginac additional library files for the system i.e. are they the files that are used to allow additional software that depend on them to run? im still getting into terms about what they are and what they do..

it does seem like a better idea to compile it in a computer and package them as deb..

Re: Octave 3.2.3 and gnuplot 4.2.6 on the N900
 

When I need to use dpkg-buildpackage, I do it in MADDE Terminal (part of Nokia Qt SDK).

Re: Octave 3.2.3 and gnuplot 4.2.6 on the N900
 

pkg-config will already be installed from the sdk repo I imagine, ginac may exist but I'm not sure. Quite often the package names are subtly different from the name we use for a package, and you have to be precise.

Try "apt-cache search ginac" to search for packages that contain the characters "ginac".

Re: Octave 3.2.3 and gnuplot 4.2.6 on the N900
 

Hi!

I am trying to install octave on my n900 (pr 1.3), following the instructions steps in this post, however -although i have extras devel repo enabled-, it cannot find the octave package (it does not go past apt-get...). I also attempted a manual installation by downloading the .deb file and executing dpkg -i ***.deb, but it stops, complaining about missing dependencies...

Any help would be greatly appreciated, please consider me to be a relatively novice user though...