R.N.Palmer wrote:
> 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.

I have a symlink libarpack.so pointing to libarpack.so.2.1 in my
debian/sid. Does creating it help?

Regards,
ST
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