Re: Error compiling Octave-3.4.1 on Ubuntu-10.04-LTS

[Hong Yu]

 

The doc component’s compiling problem is resolved, after I further installed some texlive packages including LaTex support.  And this time, I don’t need to modify the ‘configure’ file.  Thanks a lot for all help!

 

And, may I suggest on another issue:

I often read web material on a netbook with 800x600 display resolution.  Thus on the small screen, I can not see the last few lines of left-side menu on “http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/”.  Will Octave people consider modify the web page a bit, for example, to add rolling bar for the left-side menu?  I am also happy and interested to contribute.  Thanks.

 

Regards,

 

Hong Yu

 

 

 

From: YuHong

Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 12:58 PM

To: address@hidden

Cc: address@hidden ; Hong Yu

Subject: RE: Error compiling Octave-3.4.1 on Ubuntu-10.04-LTS

 

So I installed the suggested packages, and then rebuilt with doc enabled (default configuration).  However, 'make' hits the following error:

/usr/bin/texi2dvi: texinfo.tex appears to be broken, quitting.
make[3]: *** [OctaveFAQ.dvi] Error 1

I searched Octave mailing archive, found some old records of the similar problem; however, still not clear of the solution for Ubuntu-Linux.  Therefore much appreciate it if further suggestions.  Thanks a lot!

Regards,

Hong Yu

> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:07:22 -0700
> From: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Error compiling Octave-3.4.1 on Ubuntu-10.04-LTS
>
> Just succeeded a few minutes ago. The compilation indeed fails when building
> doc, because of missing
> epstool, fig2dev, and pstoedit. Either
> - install packages epstto, texlive-font-utils, transfig and pstoedit
> - 'make install' a few times, hit "enter" when tex complains, and so on.
>
> Regards
>
> Pascal
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