Re: error: imread: invalid image file

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 1 December 2012 09:39, Seetha Parameswaran <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The following error message was got when i compiled
>
> error: imread: invalid image file: imread: image reading capabilities were
> disabled when Octave was compiled
> error: called from:
> error:   /usr/local/share/octave/3.6.3/m/image/imread.m at line 74, column 7
> error:   /home/compaq/project/octave/similaritymeasures.m at line 6, column
> 7

Why are you building from source? Unless you have special needs, for
your Ubuntu version, Mike Miller has made available a PPA which is
more convenient:

    https://launchpad.net/~mtmiller/+archive/octave

- Jordi G. H.