g77 problem for octave

[tyapici]

Dear Sir/Madame,

I have switched my OS to SuSE Linux 10.1 and for a while trying to install
"Octave" to my computer. Unfortunately, the error message below is the only
thing that i got.


Installing octave-2.1.64-3.i586[Local packages]
There are no installable providers of gcc-g77 for
octave-2.1.64-3.i586[Local packages]


On my computer, the installed version of gcc is 4.1.0-25 and i could not
find any compatible version of g77 to install. For the installation of
octave, i need exactly gcc-g77 not gcc-fortran.

Can you please help me to deal with this problem?

Thanks in advance,

Tolga
Yapici

Re: g77 problem for octave

[tyapici]

This is just the case. The problem is not if I like or not. Actually, i am
happy with gfortran. But the package i want to use requires the specific
version g77 4.1.0-25.

If there is no solution, then i will uninstall gcc 4.1.0-25 and all
dependent components and will install gcc 3.3.4 for which i can find g77.
But i think this is a very time consuming work.

Thanks,

Kind regards,

Tolga Yapici

> On 7/16/06, Tim Prince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On my computer, the installed version of gcc is 4.1.0-25 and i could not
> > > find any compatible version of g77 to install. For the installation of
> > > octave, i need exactly gcc-g77 not gcc-fortran.
> (...)
> > If you are so interested in using g77 rather than gfortran, it should be
> > easy enough to grab gcc-3.4.x sources and build g77.  One would wonder
> > why you dislike gfortran so much.
> 
> I don't think he dislikes gfortran so much, he just needs _that_
> specific version of the package to install octave, I guess.
> 
> That would be a SuSE packaging problem, so I'm CC:'ing matz.
> 
> Gr.
> Steven