error: support for URL transfers was disabled when Octave was built

[Emlyn Jose]

Hi,

I have posted a bug yesterday but there is no response.

I am trying to install Octave-Symbolic in my Redhat6 Environment and getting the below error: 

+ octave --no-window-system --eval 'pkg install -forge symbolic' 
error: support for URL transfers was disabled when Octave was built 

The tar ball was downloaded from "https://github.com/cbm755/octsympy/releases/download/v2.6.0/symbolic-2.6.0.tar.gz". 

The above command was run inside the source after untaring it. 
Did I miss anything here?

Kindly help to rectify this.

Regards,

Emlyn Jose