Octave instructions?

[Cecilia Sanchez]

> Dear Support Staff,



> I am wondering if you have some instructions to download
> octave.  I am having some difficulties in doing so.
>
> So far I have done the following:
>
> 1) I downloaded from: ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/
>       octave-2.0.16.tar.gz
> 2) I downloaded from: ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/
>        make-3.79.1.tar.gz
> 3) I downloaded from: ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/
>        gcc-2.7.2.3.tar.gz
>
> Then I untared as follows:
>
> tar xvfz octave-2.0.16.tar.gz
>
> This created the directory:  octave-2.0.16.  Inside this directory I
> untared the other files (make and gcc).
>
> When I run the command  "./configure"
> I get the error:  "In order to build octave, you must have a compatible
> Fortran compiler or f2c installed and in your path.  See the file INSTALL 
> for more
> information.
>
> Followed I downloaded and untared g77.  But I still have the same error.
>
> Any hints?
>
> --Cecilia.



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