Re: Error installing octave 3.2.4

[Thomas Weber]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 02:35:18PM -0400, Judd Storrs wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:22 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Given that there are already packages for Octave 3.2 on Debian (and I
> > guess Ubuntu) systems, it might be easier to get the required
> > dependencies by using
> >
> >  apt-get build-dep octave3.2
> >
> 
> IIRC, Ubuntu 9.04 was a real pain for compiling octave because
> canonical/motu/whatever only provided octave-3.0 packages and skipped
> the new debian packages. 

Unless library names change, recompiling the Debian packages on Ubuntu
should be relatively straight-forward.

        Thomas