Re: waitbar ?

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 14, 2012, at 4:58 PM, LinuxOctave wrote:

>> You really need gfortran. 
> 
>> You either do not have development headers (*.h files) installed, or 
>> g77 is not compatible 
>> with the run-time libraries. 
> 
> So, I removed g77 and installed gfortran.
> 
> I'm still stuck on "configure: error: You are required to have BLAS and
> LAPACK libraries"
> 
> How can I install the proper/compatible BLAS and LAPACK libraries for Octave
> 3.6?

I may not have everything exactly correct below, but the process below should 
cover about all that is needed to build Octave 3.6 and then install via apt-get.

The dependencies for 3.6.x are mostly the same as for 3.2.x. You should start 
with ...

        sudo apt-get build-deps octave3.2

... after that you should be able to build Octave-3.6 by ...

        ./autogen.sh
        ./configure
        make

If you're using released sources, you don't need to autogen.

Once you've done that you can test drive by ...

        ./run-octave

If all looks ok, you can create a deb package and install it by ...

        sudo checkinstall make install

        sudo dpkg -i octave-local-3.6.0.deb

If you decide to update you installed octave, first remove the old one.

        apt-get remove octave-local-3.6.0

Ben