Re: pkg install problem

[Søren Hauberg]

lør, 15 11 2008 kl. 15:18 -0500, skrev William Christopher Carleton:
> I'm using Ubuntu 8.1 on a Dell XPS m1210 and having trouble with Octave pkg 
> install. I'm trying to install the odepkg and get the following error:
> 
> octave:1> install pkg odepkg-0.6.4.tar.gz 
> 
> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> 
> See `config.log' for more details.
> 
> error: the configure script returned the following error: checking for gcc... 
> gcc
> 
> checking for C compiler default output file name... 
> 
> error: called from `pkg:configure_make' in file 
> /usr/share/octave/3.0.0/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1045, column 2
> 
> octave:1> exit
> 
> Any suggestions? I've tried invoking octave with sudo and also using sudo in 
> front of pkg install, but neither has worked. 

I haven't seen that one before. Do you have 'octave-headers' (I believe
that's the name in Debian/Ubuntu) installed?

Søren