Re: Error installing octave 3.2.4

[Stefan Neumann]

Hi all,

Thomas, thanks for your help. 

Got it. After several attempts and really long waiting each time for make to show the next error.

Here is the (hopefully) complete list for compiling octave 3.2.4 on ubuntu 9.10. 
This worked via ssh, no X necessary.

# preliminaries, part 1 #
apt-get install gfortran  # probably necessary
apt-get install libx11-dev  # octave will give warnings but no error and then will _not_ compile if missing libx11-dev
apt-get install gfortran-4.4-multilib   # unclear if that is necessary

# preliminaries, part 2, the usual :-) #
D/L octave 3.2.4
rm -r octave-3.2.4
tar -xvjf octave-3.2.4.tar.bz2
cd octave-3.2.4

make distclean
./configure
make   # takes long, patience...
make check
make install
octave  # final test


Cheers
Stefan