FC provides Octave. However, it doesn't provide Octave Forge, which includes several utilities and other enhancements to Octave. Octave Forge is released in a version parallel to each release of Octave. The Octave Forge release equivalent to the version of Octave provided in FC3 is only available as a tgz file. An rpm spec is provided in the file, but there are no instructions how to do the packaging. I suggest that future releases of FC should include Octave Forge as well as Octave. However, in the interim, can anyone provide a simple explanation of how to use the rpm spec provided in the Octave Forge release to produce a compatible FC3 rpm for Octave Forge? Stan Klein --
