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I downloaded octave 2.1.57.

after I tarred it (tar -zxvf), I typed ./configure, the I got the
following error

cannot find sources (src/octave.cc) in . or ..

The following is what I got using (ls > file):
aclocal.m4
acx_blas.m4
acx_lapack.m4
autogen.sh*
BUGS
ChangeLog
ChangeLog.1
config.guess*
config.h.in
config.sub*
configure*
configure.in
COPYING
dlfcn/
doc/
FLEX.patch
glob/
INSTALL
INSTALL.OCTAVE
install-octave.in
install-sh*
lst
Makeconf.in
Makefile
Makefile.in
mkinstalldirs*
mkoctfile.in
mk-opts.pl
move-if-change*
NEWS
NEWS.1
octave-bug.in*
octave-config.in
octave-sh*
octMakefile.in
PROJECTS
README
README.kpathsea
README.Linux
README.MachTen
README.Windows
ROADMAP
SENDING-PATCHES
texi2dvi*
THANKS




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