Description of problem: I cannot install octave on Scientific Linux 6.3 from epel, it says: 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) It seems that these files belong to suitesparse package, that is missing from EPEL repo.
suitesparse is an RHEL core package.