Re: Octave 3.2.2 for Ubuntu9.04 -- How to compile from sources

[Judd Storrs]

The following describes how I successfully built octave-3.2.2 on a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04. After I finished install from the CD, I used Synaptic to update all Ubuntu packages. I did not change any software sources from the defaults. Here's how I proceeded:

1) Install library dependencies
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First try:

$ sudo apt-get install libcurl4-dev libgraphicsmagick++1-dev libfltk-dev libarpack2-dev

If it succeeds proceed to step 2. Otherwise if it complains that there is more than one package that satisfies libcurl4-dev use

$ sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev

and then repeat the first command again.

libcurl4-dev is required for step 2, but it is a virtual package satisfied by two other packages--either libcurl4-gnutls-dev or libcurl4-openssl-dev. I used libcurl4-gnutls-dev but I assume you could use the openssl one. If the first command succeeds then you already have one of these.


2) Install packages needed to build octave
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$ sudo apt-get build-dep octave3.0


3) Download libqrupdate packages from Karmic. (OPTIONAL)
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Get and install packages for your platform from:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/libqrupdate-dev
http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/libqrupdate1

Install them using gdebi or

$ dpkg -i libqrupdate1_1.0.1-1_i386.deb libqrupdate-dev_1.0.1-1_i386.deb


4) Download, extract, and build octave-3.2.2
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$ wget ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/octave-3.2.2.tar.bz2
$ tar xf octave-3.2.2.tar.bz2
$ cd octave-3.2.2
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
$ make
$ make check
$ sudo make install


Hope this helps.

--judd