cannot pkg install: /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible ..liboctinterp.so when searching for -loctinterp

[Dan Mahoney]

How stupid can one man be?
Don't answer that.
Based on what Thomas said I
rpm -e octave.i386
rpm -e octave-devel.i386
and I managed to successfully
pkg install something
thanks
dan

Dan Mahoney wrote:
> I installed the octave that was in the RHEL repo.
> But this being a 64bit machine it seems to installed
> both a 386 and x86_64 version.
> Which I never understood.
> Among other things.
> dan
> 
> rpm -q octave
> 
>   rpm -q octave
> octave-3.0.1-2.el5
> octave-3.0.1-2.el5
> 
> 
>   rpm -q octave -i
> Name        : octave                       Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 3.0.1                             Vendor: Fedora Project 
> <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> Release     : 2.el5                         Build Date: Fri 02 May 2008 
> 03:39:34 PM MDT
> Install Date: Mon 16 Mar 2009 10:34:35 AM MDT      Build Host: 
> xenbuilder2.fedora.redhat.com
> Group       : Applications/Engineering      Source RPM: 
> octave-3.0.1-2.el5.src.rpm
> Size        : 34116457                         License: GPLv3+
> Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Sun 04 May 2008 10:26:10 PM MDT, Key ID 
> 119cc036217521f6
> Packager    : Fedora Project <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> URL         : http://www.octave.org
> Summary     : A high-level language for numerical computations
> 
> Name        : octave                       Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 3.0.1                             Vendor: Fedora Project 
> <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> Release     : 2.el5                         Build Date: Fri 02 May 2008 
> 03:41:18 PM MDT
> Install Date: Mon 16 Mar 2009 10:34:39 AM MDT      Build Host: 
> xenbuilder2.fedora.redhat.com
> Group       : Applications/Engineering      Source RPM: 
> octave-3.0.1-2.el5.src.rpm
> Size        : 34834524                         License: GPLv3+
> Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Sun 04 May 2008 10:26:20 PM MDT, Key ID 
> 119cc036217521f6
> Packager    : Fedora Project <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> URL         : http://www.octave.org
> Summary     : A high-level language for numerical computations
> 
> 
> 
> Thomas Weber wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:01:31AM -0600, Dan Mahoney wrote:
>>> Morning,
>>>  I know little about octave.
>>> It seems that I know even less about system admin work.
>>> Which I do.
>>> I am attempting to install  octave-forge-bundle-20080831
>>> I run octave
>>> cd to where my *.tar.gz are.
>>>
>>>
>>> octave:4> pkg install ann-1.0.1.tar.gz
>>> /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/octave-3.0.1/liboctinterp.so 
>> I suspect a mixture of 32 and 64 libraries here. Where did you get
>> Octave from?
>>
>> 	Thomas
> 

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