Re: Trouble installing Octave 4.2.0 in Ubuntu 12.04

[lukshuntim]

On Friday, December 16, 2016 06:04 PM, Samkit Jain wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install Octave 4.2.0 in Ubuntu 12.04. Downloaded the
> tar.gz file from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/
>
> After running ./configure this is the error I get -
>
> configure: WARNING: Qhull library not found.  This will result in loss
> of functionality of some geometry functions.
> checking pcre.h usability... no
> checking pcre.h presence... no
> checking for pcre.h... no
> checking pcre/pcre.h usability... no
> checking pcre/pcre.h presence... no
> checking for pcre/pcre.h... no
> 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

Please see this wiki page.
http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Debian_systems

If you are lucky, you may get away with the "The easy way (but likely 
incorrect)" stated there.

Regards,
-- st