installing octave on Linux-Ubuntu

[Matthias Brennwald]

Dear Giovanna

1. Isn't Octave 3.0 available through Synaptic (or apt-get install  
octave)?

2. If you need/want to build Octave from sources, you'll need various  
"add on" libraries, for  instance readline-dev (while ./configure  
complains that it can't find readline, it really complains about not  
finding readline-dev). To get all these "add on", try running the  
following in a terminal:
	sudo apt-get build-dep octave
(You'll need to enter the admin/root password)
Then try again running ./configure. Also, take a look here:
	http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4285971

Cheers
Matthias

On 13.02.2008, at 19:04, help-octave-request at octave.org wrote:

> Hi,
>
> my name is Giovanna Guidoboni and I am an Assistant professor at the
> University of Houston. I am trying to install octave 3.0.0 on my Linux
> machine, but when I am running ./configure it fails because it is  
> not able
> to find the path of GNU readline (which is available in /usr/local/ 
> lib).
>
> I know that I should tell the program to look into that path, but I  
> do not
> know how to do. Can you please help me?
>
> I really appreciate your attention and you help,
> Best regards,
> Giovanna




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