Re: [gentoo-user] octave won't run

Mark:
> Sounds like a ebuild dependency bug, or possibly a bad mix of stable and
> non-stable packages that haven't been sussed out fully.
>
> Not a good long-term solution, especially if you're forgetful like me, but
> as a test you might try creating a symlink for libapack.so.0 pointing to
> libapack.so.3 and see if octave runs.
>
> Best to remove that more or less right away but it might get you through a
> test period waiting for the ebuild to get fixed.

Yes, that short term solution works.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar