Octave for Debian systems: Difference between revisions

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 === Dependencies ===
-The list of dependencies will be listed on the {{Path|INSTALL.OCTAVE}} file. The following is their package names for Debian repositories. Note that they will have their own dependencies which your package maintainer will solve.
+The list of dependencies will be listed on the {{Path|INSTALL.OCTAVE}} file. The following is their package names for Debian repositories (they will have their own dependencies which your package maintainer will solve automatically).
 * build tools
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 :<pre>libreadline-dev libarpack2-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libfftw3-dev libfltk-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libglpk-dev libgraphicsmagick++-dev gnuplot libhdf5-serial-dev libgl-dev libqhull-dev libqrupdate-dev libsuitesparse-dev texinfo zlib1g-dev</pre>
-{{Warning|if only the native graphics toolkit will be used, gnuplot will not be necessary.}}
+{{Warning|debian repositories has several libraries for dealing with HDF data files. The recommended one is the {{Codeline|libhdf5-serial-dev}}. However, the {{Forge|msh|msh package}} requires [http://www.geuz.org/gmsh/ gmsh] which is not compatible with it.}}
-{{Warning|debian repositories has several libraries for dealing with HDF data files. The recommended one is the {{Codeline|libhdf5-serial-dev}}. However, the {{Forge|msh|msh package}} requires [http://www.geuz.org/gmsh/ gmsh] which is not compatible with it.}}
+{{Warning|the GraphicsMagick++ library on the debian repositories was compiled with quantum 8 which limits reading images to 8 bit. The solution is to recompile GraphicsMagick with quantum
+.}}
+{{Note|different debian versions may have slightly different package names but their differences should be pretty small and limited to version numbers.}}
-{{Warning|the GraphicsMagick++ library on the debian repositories was compiled with quantum 8 which limits reading images to 8 bit. The solution is to recompile GraphicsMagick with quantum 32.}}
+{{Note|if only the native graphics toolkit will be used, gnuplot will not be necessary.}}
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