Re: Octave3.4 Installing

[Thomas Weber]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 09:50:29PM +0100, Eric Jahn wrote:
> first i downloaded the file, unzip it in a dir i specially created
> under /usr/local/octave.
> after that i make a ./configure and get the following error:
> ###################################
> checking for sgemm_ in -lblas... no
> checking for sgemm_ in -lmkl... no
> checking for sgemm_ in -framework vecLib... no
> checking for sgemm_ in -lcxml... no
> checking for sgemm_ in -ldxml... no
> checking for sgemm_ in -lscs... no
> checking for sgemm_ in -lcomplib.sgimath... no
> checking for sgemm_ in -lblas... (cached) no
> checking for sgemm_ in -lblas... (cached) no
> configure: error: You are required to have BLAS and LAPACK libraries
> ###################################

I think the message is pretty clear. You need the development libraries,
called something like libblas-dev and liblapack-dev, or such.

> then i look in the www for a solution and find one. therefor i should
> make apt-get install octave3.2 
> 
> this canceled as well with the error
> ####################################
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> Note, selecting 'libcurl4-gnutls-dev' instead of 'libcurl4-dev'
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  libcurl4-gnutls-dev : Depends: libldap2-dev but it is not going to be
> installed
>  libgl1-mesa-swx11-dev : Depends: mesa-common-dev (=
> 7.9~git20100924-0ubuntu2) but it is not going to be installed
> E: Build-dependencies for octave3.2 could not be satisfied.

I'm somewhat sure that the apt-get line given above cannot produce such
an error message. Are you sure you didn't type
        apt-get build-dep octave3.2

        Thomas