Re: Trouble installing Octave 4.2.0 in Ubuntu 12.04

[Ericbarnhill]

Have you tried installing the package libpcre3-dev before running config ?

I found that when I installed all the packages listed on the Debian Octave pages, everything built.

Eric

On Friday, December 16, 2016 06:04 PM, Samkit Jain wrote:

> Hi,

>

> I'm trying to install Octave 4.2.0 in Ubuntu 12.04. Downloaded the

> tar.gz file from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/

>

> After running ./configure this is the error I get -

>

> configure: WARNING: Qhull library not found. This will result in loss

> of functionality of some geometry functions.

> checking pcre.h usability... no

> checking pcre.h presence... no

> checking for pcre.h... no

> checking pcre/pcre.h usability... no

> checking pcre/pcre.h presence... no

> checking for pcre/pcre.h... no

> checking whether pcre.h defines the macros we need... no

> configure: error: to build Octave, you must have the PCRE library and

> header files installed

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