Re: Variables

[John W. Eaton]

On 24-Feb-2010, Jordi Guti rrez Hermoso wrote:

| On 23 February 2010 21:45, Mike B. <address@hidden> wrote:
| 
| > Is there an easy way to install the Octave development version on Debian 
squeeze?
| 
| Clone the hg tree, use apt-get build-dep octave3.2 to get the
| dependencies that are likely to be needed, build the hg tree (it uses
| the standard GNU build system), install it (optionally with
| checkinstall).

I also always recommend using a prefix like

  --prefix=/usr/local/octave/devel

or similar so that everything will be installed below a single
directory.  That keeps your build from interfering with any package
system and makes it trivial to remove the entire thing with a single
"rm -rf".

jwe