Re: New setup for octave needed git.

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 3:33 PM Doug Stewart <doug.dastew@gmail.com> wrote:

I just installed ubuntu 22.04 on a new hard drive.

I then cloned octave.

then I used the script at https://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Debian_systems#The_right_way

using the newest one for 22.04

Bootstrap said I needed git.

so I installed it with apt-get.

Should git be added to that list of dependencies?

I think the list is to compile the release tarball. git is needed if you are

compiling a hg snapshot.

 

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DAS

Dmitri.

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