Re: Compiling for Octave 4.0.0 in ubuntu 14.04 error

[Thomas D. Dean]

On 07/23/15 02:47, Sebastian Schöps wrote:
> Helios de Rosario wrote
> > > > > RT <
>
> > ratulloch@
>
> > > 22/07/2015 19:02 >>>
> > 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
> > > > >

I may have missed something.

I build octave 4.1.0+ on Ubuntu 14.04.  I do NOT have libosmesa installed.

I used 'sudo apt-get build-dep octave' and then configure and compile.

It worked with no errors.

Have you tried 'sudo apt-get build-dep octave'?

Here are the steps I followed.

sudo apt-get build-dep octave
## download and unpack the tar file.
## do this in a directory that you have not used before.
cd octave
./configure
make
make check

Tom Dean