On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Mahmood Naderan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> # ls -l /etc/yum.repos.d/
> total 20
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root  957 Nov  5  2012 epel.repo
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1056 Nov  5  2012 epel-testing.repo
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root  263 Oct  6  2011 sl-livecd-extra.repo
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2093 Jul 27  2011 sl-other.repo
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1767 Jul 27  2012 sl.repo

> # yum install octave.x86_64
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>  * epel: ftp.jaist.ac.jp
>  * sl: ftp.scientificlinux.org
>  * sl-security: ftp.scientificlinux.org
> Setting up Install Process
> Resolving Dependencies

> --> Running transaction check

> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Package: 6:octave-3.4.3-1.el6.x86_64 (epel)
>            Requires: libumfpack.so.5()(64bit)
> Error: Package: 6:octave-3.4.3-1.el6.x86_64 (epel)
>            Requires: libcxsparse.so.2()(64bit)
> Error: Package: 6:octave-3.4.3-1.el6.x86_64 (epel)
>            Requires: libcamd.so.2()(64bit)
> Error: Package: 6:octave-3.4.3-1.el6.x86_64 (epel)
>            Requires: libamd.so.2()(64bit)
> Error: Package: 6:octave-3.4.3-1.el6.x86_64 (epel)
>            Requires: libcholmod.so.1()(64bit)
> Error: Package: 6:octave-3.4.3-1.el6.x86_64 (epel)
>            Requires: libccolamd.so.2()(64bit)
> Error: Package: 6:octave-3.4.3-1.el6.x86_64 (epel)
>            Requires: libcolamd.so.2()(64bit)
>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem

Installation of octave is supposed to pull in suitesparse. Is this
already on your system? What do you see with:

yum list suitesparse

Akemi