Re: octave install

[CdeMills]

Hello,

I found myself in the same situation a few years ago. The ironic point is
that the system was revealed to have been victim of NSA penetration.

I developped a strategy similar to LinuxFromScratch. This approach is
explained at http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_in_Userland

First step: edit your profile as explained in section 6 : Managing your own
program hierarchy (optional) . Once this is done, the shortest path is to
download dependencies from source, configure each time with
--prefix=${HOME}/usr, make; make install. The last step is to download,
compile and install Octave.

This will take a long time; probably one day.

Further refinement: download, compile and install your own version of gcc if
the installed version is old (< 4.8), or does not include the Fortran
compiler. With this approach, you'll end up with your own hierarchy. With
environment variables configured as explained, your libs and your
executables will take over precedence with respect to the installed one. 

Regards

Pascal 




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