Re: new to Octave - Installing

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 13, 2012, at 8:56 PM, Germana Oliveira wrote:

> El vie, 13-01-2012 a las 19:44 -0500, Doug Stewart escribió:
> 
>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Germana Oliveira
>> 
>>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>        hi!
>>> 
>>>        I am trying to install GNU Octave from source and it is giving
>>>        Warnings
>>>        with libraries like:
>>> 
>>>        configure: WARNING: Qhull library not found -- this will
>>>        result in loss
>>>        of functionality of some geometry functions.
>>>        checking whether pcre.h defines the macros we need... no
>>>        configure: error: to build Octave, you must have the PCRE
>>>        library and
>>>        header files installed
>>> 
>>>        So i want to know how can i know the octave dependencies ¿?
>>> 
>>>        Thanks!!!!
>> 
>> What OS are you using?
>> -- 
>> DAS
> 
> Ups! Sorry....  Debian squeezy. 

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Debian uses apt-get correct ?

You can install all the dependencies for Octave by ...

        sudo apt-get build-dep octave3.2

Ben