Re: Compiling for Octave 4.0.0 in ubuntu 14.04 error

[karl]

Am 22.07.2015 um 20:51 schrieb Thomas D. Dean:
> On 07/22/15 10:23, address@hidden wrote:
> > On Thursday, July 23, 2015 01:02 AM, RT wrote:
> > > I followed these instructions because I couldn't find any for 14.04
> > > ubuntu.
> > >
> > > http://www.schoeps.org/home/2015/06/five-simple-instructions-to-compile-octave-4-on-ubuntu/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > # 1) get necessary dev-tools
> > > sudo apt-get install g++ gcc gfortran make autoconf automake bison
> > > flex gperf gzip icoutils librsvg2-bin libtool perl rsync tar
> > > # 2) get necessary packages
> > > sudo apt-get install libblas-dev liblapack-dev libpcre3-dev
> > > libarpack2-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev epstool libfftw3-dev transfig
> > > libfltk1.3-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libgl2ps-dev
> > > libglpk-dev libreadline-dev gnuplot libgraphicsmagick++-dev
> > > libhdf5-serial-dev openjdk-7-jdk libsndfile1-dev llvm-dev lpr texinfo
> > > libgl1-mesa-dev libosmesa6-dev pstoedit portaudio19-dev libqhull-dev
> > > libqrupdate-dev libqscintilla2-dev libqt4-dev libqtcore4 libqtwebkit4
> > > libqt4-network libqtgui4 libsuitesparse-dev libxft-dev zlib1g-dev
> > > # 3) download and extract
> > > cd /tmp
> > > wget -cftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/octave-4.0.0.tar.gz
> > > tar -xzf octave-4.0.0.tar.gz
> > > cd octave-4.0.0
> > > # 4) configure and make
> > > ./configure --prefix=/opt/octave-4.0.0
> > > CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/hdf5/serial
> > > LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib/$(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/hdf5/serial
> > > make
> > > make check
> > > # 5) install
> > > sudo make install
> > >
> > >
> > > I tried this but get an error when I run #2 I try and configure but I
> > > get an error
> > >
> > > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > >   libosmesa6-dev : Depends: libosmesa6 (= 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.4) but it is
> > > not going to be installed
> > > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> > >
> > > And
> > >
> > > configure: error: to build Octave, you must have the PCRE library and
> > > header files installed
> >
> > Hi RT,
> >
> > If you don't mind using unofficial packages, there's a ppa of octave 4.1
> > for ubuntu trusty.
> >
> > https://launchpad.net/~dac922/+archive/ubuntu/octave-unstable
> >
> > You can also download the source package and look at the debian/control
> > file for the build dependencies, or build it the debian way. :-)
> >
> > Regards,
> > ST
>
> You may try
>
> sudo apt-get build-dep octave
>
> This should install all the packages necessary to build octave.
>
> Tom Dean
>
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Are you sure that it is 4.0? I see only 3.8.1 in Synaptic.