Re: Compiling for Octave 4.0.0 in ubuntu 14.04 error

[Thomas D. Dean]

On 07/22/15 10:23, address@hidden wrote:
> On Thursday, July 23, 2015 01:02 AM, RT wrote:
> > I followed these instructions because I couldn't find any for 14.04
> > ubuntu.
> >
> > http://www.schoeps.org/home/2015/06/five-simple-instructions-to-compile-octave-4-on-ubuntu/
> >
> >
> >
> > # 1) get necessary dev-tools
> > sudo apt-get install g++ gcc gfortran make autoconf automake bison
> > flex gperf gzip icoutils librsvg2-bin libtool perl rsync tar
> > # 2) get necessary packages
> > sudo apt-get install libblas-dev liblapack-dev libpcre3-dev
> > libarpack2-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev epstool libfftw3-dev transfig
> > libfltk1.3-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libgl2ps-dev
> > libglpk-dev libreadline-dev gnuplot libgraphicsmagick++-dev
> > libhdf5-serial-dev openjdk-7-jdk libsndfile1-dev llvm-dev lpr texinfo
> > libgl1-mesa-dev libosmesa6-dev pstoedit portaudio19-dev libqhull-dev
> > libqrupdate-dev libqscintilla2-dev libqt4-dev libqtcore4 libqtwebkit4
> > libqt4-network libqtgui4 libsuitesparse-dev libxft-dev zlib1g-dev
> > # 3) download and extract
> > cd /tmp
> > wget -cftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/octave-4.0.0.tar.gz
> > tar -xzf octave-4.0.0.tar.gz
> > cd octave-4.0.0
> > # 4) configure and make
> > ./configure --prefix=/opt/octave-4.0.0
> > CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/hdf5/serial
> > LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib/$(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/hdf5/serial
> > make
> > make check
> > # 5) install
> > sudo make install
> >
> >
> > I tried this but get an error when I run #2 I try and configure but I
> > get an error
> >
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >   libosmesa6-dev : Depends: libosmesa6 (= 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.4) but it is
> > not going to be installed
> > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> >
> > And
> >
> > configure: error: to build Octave, you must have the PCRE library and
> > header files installed
>
> Hi RT,
>
> If you don't mind using unofficial packages, there's a ppa of octave 4.1
> for ubuntu trusty.
>
> https://launchpad.net/~dac922/+archive/ubuntu/octave-unstable
>
> You can also download the source package and look at the debian/control
> file for the build dependencies, or build it the debian way. :-)
>
> Regards,
> ST

You may try

sudo apt-get build-dep octave

This should install all the packages necessary to build octave.

Tom Dean