Re: Error installing octave 3.2.4

[Thomas D. Dean]

On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 01:56 +0200, Stefan Neumann wrote:

> 
> just tried that on ubuntu 9.10. No luck here. Apparently the 

I just did this on ubuntu 9.10

> rm -Rf octave-3.2.4 
> tar -xvjf octave-3.2.4.tar.bz2
> cd octave-3.2.4 
> echo $SHELL
/bin/bash
> f77 = gfortran
> gfortran --version
GNU Fortran (Ubuntu 4.4.1-4ubuntu9) 4.4.1
...
> ./configure
> tail -1 config.log
configure: exit 0
> make > make.log 2>&1
> tail make.log
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/tomdean/Math/Octave/octave-3.2.4/doc'

Octave successfully built.  Now choose from the following:

   ./run-octave    - to run in place to test before installing
   make check      - to run the tests
   make install    - to install (PREFIX=/usr/local)
>find . -iname octave
./src/octave
>./run-octave
GNU Octave, version 3.2.4
Copyright (C) 2009 John W. Eaton and others.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.

Octave was configured for "i686-pc-linux-gnu".
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