Hello Everyone,

I am trying to install Octave on my 11.10 Ubuntu, but apparently it is not as easy as I thought.

I downloaded the binary, extracted, navigated to the extracted folder in terminal, and ran ./configure

after a long list of checks and logs configure stops. I assuming it aborted since the few messages I got were

checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no
checking whether accepts -g... no
checking how to get verbose linking output from ... configure: WARNING: compilation failed

checking for Fortran 77 libraries of ...
checking for dummy main to link with Fortran 77 libraries... none
checking for Fortran 77 name-mangling scheme... configure: error: in `/home/oshak/octave-3.4.3':
configure: error: cannot compile a simple Fortran program
See `config.log' for more details

then I type 'make' and I get

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

I am assuming ./configure didnt finish properly and hence didnt create the make file properly.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

I wonder how tough using Octave is going to be if that trouble is only for installing