[CentOS] make install?

Mon Jul 11 12:25:48 UTC 2011
Anthony Newman <centos at antiphase.net>

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