install communications pkg prob (from newbie)

[Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 10:52:11AM +0000, J. A. Rayn wrote:
> I have:
> 
> OS:Linux 2.6.22.9-desktop586-1mdv i686
> System:Mandriva Linux OneVersion:2008.0KDE:3.5.9
> 
> and Octave3 installed
> 
> When trying to install the package communications I get the following:
> 
> 
> octave:1> pkg install /home/ryan/Desktop/communications-1.0.5.tar.gz
> error: the following dependencies where unsatisfied:
>    communications needs signal >= 1.0.0
> octave:1> pkg install /home/ryan/Desktop/signal-1.0.6.tar.gz
> sh: make: command not found
> error: 'make' returned the following error:
> error: called from `pkg:configure_make' in 
> file /usr/share/octave/2.9.16/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1043, column 2
> octave:1>

Seems you just have to install the make program for mandrivia, should
be a package called make in the mandrivia package repository.

After installing make, then rerun the pkg install inside octave and if
you have the neccesery libraries installed the package should install
fine.

Oli