From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Mar  8 21:30:35 1999
Subject: Octave on Linux
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "H.B.Dave" <hbd at ddit dot ernet dot in>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 21:28:50 -0600 (CST)

On  9-Mar-1999, H.B.Dave <hbd at ddit dot ernet dot in> wrote:

| We have installed octave-1.1.1 on our Linux system (2.0.29 Kernel). The
| installation went through smoothly, but we get "Segmentation Fault, core
| dumped" message every time we start octave. If started with -d switch, it
| tries to read the file, does some internal processing, but ultimately
| again gives the message.
| Can you suggest something?

1.1.1 is ancient.  Check out http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave for
pointers to a newer version.

jwe