g77 problem for octave

[Tim Prince]

tyapici@ae.metu.edu.tr wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madame,
> 
> I have switched my OS to SuSE Linux 10.1 and for a while trying to install
> "Octave" to my computer. Unfortunately, the error message below is the only
> thing that i got.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Installing octave-2.1.64-3.i586[Local packages]
> There are no installable providers of gcc-g77 for
> octave-2.1.64-3.i586[Local packages]
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> On my computer, the installed version of gcc is 4.1.0-25 and i could not
> find any compatible version of g77 to install. For the installation of
> octave, i need exactly gcc-g77 not gcc-fortran.
> 
> Can you please help me to deal with this problem?
> 
If you are so interested in using g77 rather than gfortran, it should be 
easy enough to grab gcc-3.4.x sources and build g77.  One would wonder 
why you dislike gfortran so much.