support for URL transfers not available, is this a limitation in Octave, how is this possible?

[Jonathan Camilleri]

I tried pkg install -forge taylor at http://octave-online.net/#.

error: support for url transfers was disabled when Octave was built
error: called from:
error:   /usr/local/share/octave/3.8.2/m/pkg/private/get_forge_pkg.m at line 40, column 14
error:   /usr/local/share/octave/3.8.2/m/pkg/private/get_forge_download.m at line 26, column 12
error:   /usr/local/share/octave/3.8.2/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 385, column 29

Called at http://octave-online.net/#.

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