Re: [OctDev] Error in Image package in Octave

[Jordi G. H. <jo...@oc...>]

On 14 October 2012 05:12, marco atzeri <mar...@gm...> wrote:
> On 10/14/2012 10:51 AM, Sivahari Nandakumar wrote:
> followup to the list
>
>> Dear Marco,
>> the result of
>> pkg install -verbose image-1.0.15.tar.gz
>> is
>>
>> mkdir (/tmp/oct-FhHuOG)
>> untar (/home/appu/Downloads/image-1.0.15.tar.gz, /tmp/oct-FhHuOG)
>> make: mkoctfile: Command not found
>
> you need to install the octave-devel package, otherwise you can
> not compile tha package from source
> (image-1.0.15.tar.gz is a source package not a binary one)

But a binary package should exist for it. I expect it would be named
something like octave-image from Sivahari's rpm or apt distribution.

We really should encourage people to install binary packages first
before we tell them to attempt to compile from source.

- Jordi G. H.