Re: Problems with installing octave3.2.2 on ubuntu

[Matthias Brennwald]

On Aug 30, 2009, at 7:03 PM, address@hidden wrote:

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> Subject: Problems with installing octave3.2.2 on ubuntu
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> I first have to admit I am no expert in ubuntu but I have managed to  
> inistall
> octave 3.0.1 using the standard sudo apt-get install octave command  
> and
> would like to upgrade to 3.2.2 so I could use some of the packages  
> available
>
> So I downloaded octave3.2.2.tar.gz and unzipped it and have tried to  
> follow
> the instructions on the configure and get the following in the  
> config log
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p25211828/config.log config.log
>
> I am presuming there are loads of errors but the first one seems to  
> be a
> missing header file and some of the earlier lack of commands such as  
> arch (I
> am not sure there is one!!!) may also be hindering progress
>
> I suppose my first question is there an easier way?
>
> Thanks


You need to install some headers and other stuff before you can  
compile Octave. Assuming that Octave 3.2.2 does not require anything  
else than the version available from the Ubuntu repositories, you can  
get everything you need by running:

        sudo apt-get build-dep Octave

This will install everything needed to build Octave. Then, try running  
'./configure', 'make' and 'make install'. If you're lucky, you'll have  
Octave 3.2.2 running after that.

Matthias

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