Shakthi Kannan wrote:
Usually, you would use your distro package manager to install software, which takes care of all dependencies. Since, you are doing it manually, you are hitting some road blocks :)
I'm planning to use checkinstall to create deb files. How do I bring those into Synaptic's purview?
Scilab or GNUplot or R-project, perhaps?
I needed to call the graphic routines from the C code. I found libplot http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/ - will try it out later.