Re: Help with General Package in Octave 3.6.3

[Alexander Hansen]

On 5/6/13 7:38 PM, Sean Fritz wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been trying for several days to find a solution to my problem and
> have come up empty thus far. Let me preface this with the fact that I am
> a _partially_ competent Linux user on a good day.
>
> I'm trying to install the optim package and its dependencies. I'm having
> problems with the general package (and all the other optim related
> packages as well) that I think are related to the mkoctfile. I've been
> looking for my particular problem, but the Google has failed me.
>
> This is the error I get when trying to install general-1.3.2 into Octave:
>
> octave:9> pkg install general-1.3.2.tar.gz
> /usr/bin/mkoctfile-3.6.3: line 509: g++: command not found
> make: *** [SHA1.oct] Error 127
> 'make' returned the following error: make: Entering directory
> `/tmp/oct-DzLEFf/general/src'
> /usr/bin/mkoctfile-3.6.3 SHA1.cc
> make: Leaving directory `/tmp/oct-DzLEFf/general/src'
> error: called from `pkg>configure_make' in file
> /usr/share/octave/3.6.3/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1385, column 9
> error: called from:
> error:   /usr/share/octave/3.6.3/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 827, column 5
> error:   /usr/share/octave/3.6.3/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 383, column 9
>
> Any idea what's happening here? How do I fix this?
>
> Thank you in advance for your patience and support.
>
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> Sean Fritz
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You don't have a 'g++' executable installed in your PATH.  You're going 
to need to install whatever package provides that under your particular 
distribution (whatever it may be).

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