By Michele31416
This is probably something really simple, but I don’t get it. I downloaded a copy of Octave and extracted it to octave-2.1.73-sol10-sparc-local. Now what do I do with it? I chmod’ed it to 777 and tried running it which just gave me an endless stream of errors. Here’s the beginning of the file if that helps.
-bash-3.00$ more octave-2.1.73-sol10-sparc-local
# PaCkAgE DaTaStReAm
SMCoctv 1 190880
# end of header
070701000076e1000081a40000000a0000000a0000000145bb61c
000000ae000000880000000b00000000000000000000001000000000SMCoctv/pkginfoPKG=SMCoctv
NAME=octave
ARCH=sparc
VERSION=2.1.73
CATEGORY=application
VENDOR=John W. Eaton
EMAIL=steve@smc.vnet.net
PSTAMP=Steve Christensen
BASEDIR=/usr/local
CLASSES=none
070701000076d6000081a40000000a0000000a0000000145bb61c10003bc6e000000880000000b0000000000000000
0000000f00000000SMCoctv/pkgmap: 1 190880
1 d none bin 0755 bin bin
1 s none bin/mkoctfile=mkoctfile-2.1.73
1 f none bin/mkoctfile-2.1.73 0755 bin bin 10961 36812 1169908134
1 s none bin/octave=octave-2.1.73
I’m stumped.
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