From owner-help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Mar 28 13:33:49 1996
Subject: Re: Installation problems
From: "H. I. SALEH" <salehh at peak dot org>
To: Paolo Lorenzetti <paolo at studenti dot ing dot unipi dot it>
cc: help-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:01:19 -0800 (PST)



On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, Paolo Lorenzetti wrote:

> 
> I've found some problems during installation of octave on a 486 with Linux 
> 1.1.59. Here what I've done:
> 
> -> downloaded "octave-1.1.1-2.ELF.bin.tar.gz" in my ~/tmp/octave
> 
> -> tar xvzf octave-1.1.1-2.ELF.bin.tar.gz
> 
> -> cd octave-1.1.1
> 
> -> I have executed doinstall:
>    ./doinstall.sh
>    ./doinstall.sh: unable to extract version number from Octave!
> 
> -> So I've tried to run octave:
>    ./octave
>    bash: ./octave: No such file or directory
> 
> Well I've '.' in PATH and the right access permission to octave.
> 
> What should I do ???
> 
> Please answer quickly, I need octave !
> 
> Thanks,
> 						Paolo Lorenzetti
>

Look at the Linux software map and README file for this binary. I think you 
need to download and install some shared libraries before it run.

H. I. SALEH