Am Mi., 15. Juli 2020 um 22:02 Uhr schrieb John W. Eaton <
jwe@octave.org>:
>
> Unfortunately, the installation of "pcre2-utils" was not sufficient, the
> error message is as follows:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [...]
> configure: error: to build Octave, you must have the PCRE library and
> header files installed
> make: *** [/home/spofahl/hg/mxe-octave/hg-octave-dist.mk:34
> <http://hg-octave-dist.mk:34>: hg-octave-dist] Fehler 1
> (base) X6630G:~/hg/mxe-octave$
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> But I will try to sort this out as well.
If you are using Ubuntu, I would recommend starting with
apt build-dep octave
jwe
Thanks John! - This was not sufficient for me, it was necessary to edit "/etc/apt/sources.list" and to uncomment
the following line: