Re: should i just install this on linux?

[Quentin Spencer]

malik martin wrote:
> cygwin is easy but their files are too old. the mingw instructions are
> way too confusing. should i just download it and run it for linux?
> would that be easier?
>   

If you want a newer release of octave and you already have a system 
running one of the major Linux distributions, then yes, it should be 
much simpler than building your own on cygwin. Debian, Fedora, and their 
derivatives both have 2.9.x binaries available (though Fedora doesn't 
have 2.9.10 yet). I think SuSE does also.

Quentin