Re: support for url transfers was disabled when Octave was built

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

> From: Mike Miller 

> To: syedk01 
> Cc: octave-maintainers
> Date: 2016/7/21, Thu 07:16
> Subject: Re: support for url transfers was disabled when Octave was built
> 
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 12:17:42 -0700, syedk01 wrote:
>>  I am using the latest version 3.8.2 but we cannot download any software
>>  from packages from forge - Because  support fir url transfers was disabled
> 
> You are not using the latest version. Your first message showed that you
> are running 3.8.2-rc2, which is a release candidate and not an official
> release.
> 
> But whether you update or not, you compiled Octave yourself from source
> and did not have certain development libraries installed, so some
> features are disabled. If you want to build Octave from source, please
> read the file INSTALL.OCTAVE included with Octave for information about
> all of the dependencies. The cURL library is mentioned in there for the
> functions that you are missing.


For ubuntu 12.04, you can get more latest binary using ppa.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:octave/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install octave

You probably get octave-4.0.2
https://launchpad.net/~octave/+archive/ubuntu/stable


Tatsuro