Re: Installing a bleeding-edge Octave next to a stable Octave

[John W. Eaton]

On 28-Mar-2007, Michael Creel wrote:

| Another possibility that has yet to be mentioned is to install to a chroot, 
or 
| to a virtual machine. You'll for sure not mess up your existing install if 
you 
| do either of those. M.

I see no reason to go to the effort of setting up a chroot system just
to install a copy of Octave.  Configuring with something like
--prefix=/usr/local/octave/2.9.10 (or similar) works just fine as a
way to isolate an Octave install to one directory.

jwe