On 11/07/11 12:58, hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > I downloaded the octave-3.4.2 and tried to install it on my centos 5.6 > as the following: > #./configure > But it prompted for lack of a c compiler, so I tried to install gcc > first and then re-executed it and it was successful. > #make > But it prompts as "No targets specified and no makefile found". > #make install > But it prompts as "No rule to make target 'install'". > I had the same steps for installing applications when I was on my > centos 5.0 machine. Can you please let me know what is wrong my case? You mistyped 'yum install octave' Ant