Debian have already agreed that the new license is free: the ARPACK library (but not this Octave binding) has now been re-added to Debian unstable, after being removed when someone noticed the old license's restrictions a few months ago. http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/arpack.html http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=491794
However, given that this is likely to take some time to work its way through to Ubuntu (whether as part of core Octave or as a package), I would appreciate a way to install it now. I've tried installing the libarpack2 from Debian unstable (which installs as /usr/lib/libarpack.so.2) in case the problem was with my ARPACK (compiling it from source under Linux requires configuration editing), but that took me back to the "cannot find -larpack" error. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
