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I instaleld Mageia 2 (32 bits) to try it.

Using the software management tool, I can search for octave and I only see 5 packages there.

but octave has many more packages for it, such as octave-odepkg and many more

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/3/ ... ave-odepkg

my media manager is set up to look at 'mirror list core release' and 'mirror list core updates'

my question is: how to find and install the other octave packages using the package manager?
When I tried linux mint, the package manager there shows all the other octave packages. Why does Mageia 2 only shows so few?

Can I point the package manager to other rpm database to read these packages from even if they belong to different distribution?

cheers,
steve

Nenja123,

Welcome to the forum Mageia ,

After you enable the default media of Mageia 2 (Core Release 1 and Core Updates 3, Nonfree Release 11 e Nonfree Updates 13, and medias Tainted Release 21 e Tainded Updates 23), If you look in Mageia Manager Software, in MCC, you will find the following packages octave:

Mageia Core:

octave-3.6.1-2.mga2.i586.rpm - High-level language for numerical computations
octave-devel-3.6.1-2.mga2.i586.rpm - Development headers and files for Octave
octave-doc-3.6.1-2.mga2.noarch.rpm - Documentation for Octave, a numerical computational language
octave-plplot-5.9.9-4.mga2.i586.rpm - PLplot support for Octave
qtoctave-0.10.1-2.mga2.i586.rpm - Frontend for Octave

The same packages you will find if you look at Linux Packages Search

Well, that are the packages available for mageia. But have a look in the Mandriva repos there are more than 60 packages for octave present

Mageia currently has only the 5 main packages for octave.

If you need some additional extra packages like odepkg
you can require them following this guideline,
or you could help Mageia becoming a packager

alf wrote:Well, that are the packages available for mageia. But have a look in the Mandriva repos there are more than 60 packages for octave present

How do I do that? I am new at linux and mageia. What do I need to type in the package manager to do the above?

thank
steve

My remark was not meant as a advice to you installing the packages from an other distribution. In general, one can do, but the risk to demage your system is evident. Thus follow tom_'s advice

tom_ wrote:you can require them following this guideline,