CentOS - Oct 2008 - octave

trying to install octave from epel onto centos 5.2, and getting 
dependency errors.  only place I could find this RPM was in epel, which 
I 'thought' ran on native rhel5/centos5 without requiring any other 
repos, but I guess I'm wrong?!?

google tells me libhdf5 is some sot of 'heirarchial data format' 
library, whatever that means.


# yum install octave
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--> Running transaction check
---> Package octave.i386 6:3.0.1-2.el5 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libcamd.so.2 for package: octave
--> Processing Dependency: libumfpack.so.5 for package: octave
--> Processing Dependency: libcolamd.so.2 for package: octave
--> Processing Dependency: libfftw3.so.3 for package: octave
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--> Processing Dependency: libblas.so.3 for package: octave
--> Processing Dependency: libglpk.so.0 for package: octave
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--> Processing Dependency: libamd.so.2 for package: octave
--> Processing Dependency: gnuplot for package: octave
--> Processing Dependency: libcxsparse.so.2 for package: octave
--> Processing Dependency: libhdf5.so.0 for package: octave
--> Processing Dependency: liblapack.so.3 for package: octave
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---> Package glpk.i386 0:4.20-2.el5 set to be updated
---> Package octave.i386 6:3.0.1-2.el5 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libhdf5.so.0 for package: octave
---> Package qhull.i386 0:2003.1-7.el5 set to be updated
---> Package lapack.i386 0:3.0-37.el5 set to be updated
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---> Package fftw3.i386 0:3.1.1-1.el5.rf set to be updated
---> Package blas.i386 0:3.0-37.el5 set to be updated
---> Package suitesparse.i386 0:3.1.0-1.el5 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libhdf5.so.0 is needed by package octave

>>Error: Missing Dependency: libhdf5.so.0 is needed by package octave
JohnStanley Writes:
yum whatprovides libhdf5.so.0
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The package is not in the CentOS Distro. You will have to look elsewhere to
find it. A good start would be google to find it and remember the
whatprovides command to find what libs go with the package you need.  CentOS
and RHEL Versions 5 with Point releases 1,2, and 3 you can try this one
here.
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/4123486/com/hdf5-1.6.5-7.fc6.i38
6.rpm.html

"OR"

 This one is for EPEL 5 on there site.
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/8177721/com/hdf5-1.6.7-1.el5.i38
6.rpm.html