shared library error in octave-2.0.16

[Ri98030342]

Apologies if this has been covered in past mailing-lists. I have successfully 
compiled octave-2.0.16 under Linux 6.0 ('configure' then 'make' then 'make 
install') and get the following error message when I start Octave:

Octave: error in loading shared libraries: libm.so.5: cannot open shared 
object file: No such file or directory.

Octave is correct, there is no libm.so.5 on my computer, but why is it asking 
for it and what do I do to correct the problem?

Rich



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