Judd Storrs wrote:
I really don't think it's that hard to compile from sources on Ubuntu.
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:
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Hope this helps.
I hope so, too!
Actually, I'm a FOSS-person myself; a Linux user for 10 years. No,
difficult to do it is not. The thing that's absolutely difficult is the
How To! How should, how could, anyone guess which packages are
necessary; which commands are necessary?? I at least couldn't.
And still, it doesn't go through here:
$ sudo apt-get install libcurl4-dev libgraphicsmagick++1-dev libfltk-dev
libarpack2-dev
Package libcurl4-dev is a virtual package provided by:
libcurl4-gnutls-dev 7.18.2-8ubuntu4.1
You should explicitly select one to install.
E: Package libcurl4-dev has no installation candidate
$ sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
comerr-dev libgcrypt11-dev libgnutls-dev libgpg-error-dev libidn11-dev
libkadm55 libkrb5-dev libldap2-dev libtasn1-3-dev
Suggested packages:
libcurl3-dbg libgcrypt11-doc gnutls-doc gnutls-bin guile-gnutls krb5-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
comerr-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libgcrypt11-dev libgnutls-dev
libgpg-error-dev libidn11-dev libkadm55 libkrb5-dev libldap2-dev
libtasn1-3-dev
0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3928kB of archives.
After this operation, 12.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
$ sudo apt-get install libcurl4-dev libgraphicsmagick++1-dev libfltk-dev
libarpack2-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package libcurl4-dev is a virtual package provided by:
libcurl4-gnutls-dev 7.18.2-8ubuntu4.1
You should explicitly select one to install.
E: Package libcurl4-dev has no installation candidate
$
And that's the end already. No libcurl4-dev.
So I tried the other way:
$ sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
libgpg-error-dev libtasn1-3-dev libgcrypt11-dev libgnutls-dev
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
libssl-dev
Suggested packages:
libcurl3-dbg
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libcurl4-gnutls-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3035kB of archives.
After this operation, 7029kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
$ sudo apt-get build-dep octave3.0
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package libcurl4-dev is a virtual package provided by:
libcurl4-gnutls-dev 7.18.2-8ubuntu4.1
You should explicitly select one to install.
E: Package libcurl4-dev has no installation candidate
E: Failed to satisfy Build-Depends dependency for octave3.0: libcurl4-dev
Out of luck again, and the end of the line for me.
Thanks anyway,
Uwe