On 7/11/11, Anthony Newman <centos at antiphase.net> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Thank you for your reply. But I got its *.tar.gz package and tried from it. Do you mean '#yum install octave' is all sufficient to install it? Please confirm.