Re: BLAS library incompatible with Fortran 77 compiler settings

[Thomas Weber]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 04:42:39PM -0700, babelproofreader wrote:
>  steps 1 through 3 are done; it seems my system is now completely clear of
> Octave. Nothing with Octave shows as being installed in the package manager
> and terminal is:-
> 
> address@hidden:~$ apt-show-versions | grep octave 
> address@hidden:~$ octave --version 
> The program 'octave' is currently not installed.  You can install it by
> typing: sudo apt-get install octave3.2 
> address@hidden:~$ apt-cache policy octave 
> octave:   
> Installed: (none)   
> Candidate: (none)   
> Version table:      3.6.1-1ubuntu1ppa1~precise1 0         
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 
> address@hidden:~$

Good (it's actually better than I expected). Now, let's build a recent
Octave for your system. Go to 
http://packages.debian.org/source/unstable/octave
and scroll down to the end of the page where it says 'Download octave'.
You need the .dsc file, the .orig.tar.bz2 and the .debian.tar.gz file.

The easiest way is to install the package 'devscripts' which brings a
command 'dget'. Call this with the URL to the .dsc file:
        $ dget -u 
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/octave/octave_3.6.2-5.dsc
This will download and extract the files from above in your current
working directory. You should now have an octave directory, so change
into that:
        $ cd octave-3.6.2/
And now build the package
        $ dpkg-buildpackage 
If the command complains about missing dependencies, install them. You
can get a list of all needed packages by looking into the file
debian/control - the Build-Depends line is your friend. You should end
up with several .deb files which you install in your system via (as root
or via sudo)
        # dpkg -i NameOfDebFiles

Thanks
        Thomas