Octave 1.1.1-2 with Slackware 3.2

[John W. Eaton]

On 27-Jan-1998, Barry Wealand <address@hidden> 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