Re: Octave 3.4.3 from EPEL fails with 3 missing RPMs on RHEL6 x86_64

[Jonathan Underwood <jonathan underwood gmail com>]

On 2 August 2012 09:29, Christopher Lott <clott appcomsci com> wrote:
>  % sudo yum install octave
>
> Yum resolved a slew of dependencies using EPEL (see output below).
> Unfortunately in the end it failed to find the following RPMS:
>
> Error: Package: 6:octave-3.4.3-1.el6.x86_64 (epel)
>            Requires: libglpk.so.0()(64bit)
> Error: Package: 6:octave-3.4.3-1.el6.x86_64 (epel)
>            Requires: libfftw3f.so.3()(64bit)
> Error: Package: 6:octave-3.4.3-1.el6.x86_64 (epel)
>            Requires: libfftw3.so.3()(64bit)
>

You need to install the glpk and fftw packages from the main
distribution - perhaps you don't have your RH repositories activated
as these should be pulled in automatically.

J.