Latest Octave in 10.04

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I'm trying to install the latest stable Octave (it seems there is no package ppa yet). when I run ./configure it ends with the error:

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checking for struct group.gr_passwd... no
checking for tputs in -lncurses... yes
checking for rl_set_keyboard_input_timeout in -lreadline... no
configure: WARNING: I need GNU Readline 4.2 or later
configure: error: this is fatal unless you specify --disable-readline

Am I missing a library that needs to be installed? Should I disable readline??

[TeoBigusGeekus]

Try to install readline

sudo apt-get install readline

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E: Couldn't find package readline

[TeoBigusGeekus]

Hm...
Open Synaptic Package Manager and do a search for readline.

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Readline-common was installed, but libreadline6-dev wasn't, installing that seems to fix it

[TeoBigusGeekus]

Good to know...
I'm glad you got it fixed!