Re: Error installing octave 3.2.4

[Judd Storrs]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Stefan Neumann <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Unless library names change, recompiling the Debian packages on Ubuntu
>> should be relatively straight-forward.
>
> Only it wasn't. I spent lots of time, research and experimentation before
> 'make' finally finished without error.

This mistake was Ubuntu's in 9.04. Just don't use it. If you search
the mailing list you will see all the headaches we went through. In
Karmic and later it's as simple as John suggests:

> make build-dep octave-3.2
> ./configure
> make
> make install


--judd