From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Jan 29 13:25:30 2001
Subject: Octave instructions?
From: Cecilia Sanchez <c_sanchez at lanl dot gov>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 12:25:27 -0700


>Dear Support Staff,



>I am wondering if you have some instructions to download
>octave.  I am having some difficulties in doing so.
>
>So far I have done the following:
>
>1) I downloaded from: ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/
>       octave-2.0.16.tar.gz
>2) I downloaded from: ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/
>        make-3.79.1.tar.gz
>3) I downloaded from: ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/
>        gcc-2.7.2.3.tar.gz
>
>Then I untared as follows:
>
>tar xvfz octave-2.0.16.tar.gz
>
>This created the directory:  octave-2.0.16.  Inside this directory I
>untared the other files (make and gcc).
>
>When I run the command  "./configure"
>I get the error:  "In order to build octave, you must have a compatible
>Fortran compiler or f2c installed and in your path.  See the file INSTALL 
>for more
>information.
>
>Followed I downloaded and untared g77.  But I still have the same error.
>
>Any hints?
>
>--Cecilia.



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