On 24 September 2011 10:58, Rick T <
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> 2011/9/24 Ben Abbott <
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>> On Sep 24, 2011, at 10:55 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
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>> > On 24 September 2011 07:05, Rick T <
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>> >> I'm getting this error when trying to install on ubuntu 10.04
>> >> Cannot open file debug.h
>> >> /usr/bin/f77: aborting compilation
>> >> make[2]: *** [arpack/src/libcruft_la-cgetv0.lo] Error 1
>> >> make[2]: Leaving directory
>> >> `/home/ubu32sc/Downloads/octave-3.4.2/libcruft'
>> >> make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
>> >> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ubu32sc/Downloads/octave-3.4.2'
>> >> make: *** [install] Error 2
>> >> This link says to use the gfortran compiler but how does one switch to
>> >> it?
>> >
>> > apt-get install gfortran
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>> > Where did you get f77 indeed? "dpkg -S /usr/bin/f777" should tell you
>> > which package brought it in. Remove that package.
>> >
>> > HTH,
>> > - Jordi G. H.
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>> Does ...
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>> apt-get build-dep octave3.2
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>> ... include gfortran? If so, then run that command (it will not install
>> Octave, but will install the packages Octave requires to build and run).
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>> Ben
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> I did a pkg -S /usr/bin/f77 and it says "dpkg: /usr/bin/f77 not found."
> So I'm not sure why it's coming back with this error message?