installing octave on Linux-Ubuntu

[Giovanna Guidoboni]

Hi,

my name is Giovanna Guidoboni and I am an Assistant professor at the 
University of Houston. I am trying to install octave 3.0.0 on my Linux 
machine, but when I am running ./configure it fails because it is not able
to find the path of GNU readline (which is available in /usr/local/lib).

I know that I should tell the program to look into that path, but I do not 
know how to do. Can you please help me?

I really appreciate your attention and you help,
Best regards,
Giovanna

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Giovanna Guidoboni, Ph.D.
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University of Houston                   713-743-3505 fax.
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