From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Jan 27 12:43:13 1998
Subject: Octave 1.1.1-2 with Slackware 3.2
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: wealand at mothra dot lmms dot lmco dot com (Barry Wealand)
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 12:42:51 -0600

On 27-Jan-1998, Barry Wealand <wealand at mothra dot lmms dot lmco dot com> wrote:

| I'm trying to install the binary distribution for octave v. 1.1.1-2

That's really ancient.  No one should be using that now.

| I also tried downloading the latest source distribution (v. 2.0.9) and
| building that.  This worked fine right up to the final link, at which
| point my mere 16 megabytes of memory was unequal to the task:  I got a
| 'Memory exhausted' message from ld.
| 
| Does anybody have any suggestions?  I'm not particular about which version
| of octave to install, I just need something that works.

Try the newer binary release for Linux on Intel systems available from
ftp.che.wisc.edu in the directory /pub/octave/BINARIES.  It's
statically linked, so you shouldn't have problems with incompatible
library versions.

jwe