Bug 552978

Summary:	Contrib: octave does not start
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2	Reporter:	Christian Trippe <ctrippe>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Petr Gajdos <pgajdos>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	RC 2
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Hardware:	x86
OS:	openSUSE 11.2
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Description Christian Trippe 2009-11-05 19:24:38 UTC

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I installed octave from the Contrib repo. Trying to start it results in 

christian@asterix:~/Documents> octave
octave: error while loading shared libraries: liboctave.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
christian@asterix:~/Documents>

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install octave from the Contrib repo of 11.2
2. try to start octave from the terminal
Actual Results:  
above error message

Expected Results:  
octave prompt

Comment 1 Petr Gajdos 2009-11-11 12:37:19 UTC

As a workaround, try link *.so files from /usr/lib/octave-3.2.2 to /usr/lib.

Comment 2 Christian Trippe 2009-11-11 12:47:25 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> As a workaround, try link *.so files from /usr/lib/octave-3.2.2 to /usr/lib.

That works, thanks!

Comment 3 Petr Gajdos 2009-11-12 15:50:24 UTC

Fixed for 11.2 and Factory, thanks reporting!