Octave 3.6.4 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

[Fausto Arinos Barbuto]

Hello All,

Is there a roadmap to a smooth installation of Octave 3.6.4 on Ubuntu 12.04-64? 
 The
contents of the tarball I downloaded compiled well and I managed to installing 
some
packages I need (odebvp, fpl, gnuplot, plot and a couple more) but I'm having a 
hell
of a time to install others (odepkg, general, linear-algebra, etc).  All failed
attempts are related to that mkoctfile script (see below), but the file is 
where it
is supposed to be.

Thanks,

Fausto


octave:10> pkg install general-1.3.2.tar.gz
In file included from __exit__.cc:16:0:
/usr/local/include/octave-3.6.4/octave/../octave/oct.h:31:20: fatal error: config.h: No such 
file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [__exit__.oct] Error 1
'make' returned the following error: make: Entering directory 
`/tmp/oct-Dr8VPn/general/src'
/usr/local/bin/mkoctfile-3.6.4 __exit__.cc
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/oct-Dr8VPn/general/src'
error: called from 'pkg>configure_make' in file /usr/local/share/octave/3.6.4/m/pkg/pkg.m near 
line 1385, column 9
error: called from:
error:   /usr/local/share/octave/3.6.4/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 827, column 5
error:   /usr/local/share/octave/3.6.4/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 383, column 9