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I installed octave 4 by compiling source as given in How to install Octave 4.0.0 in Ubuntu 14.04

but i am not able to use GUI. octave --force-gui gives me only commandline in terminal . please guide me to get GUI & other features .(if libraries are missing please tell me how to install libraries and get the featurs) hear is log file config.log ... BY seeing in log file i found this list :

  1. Build Octave GUI: no

  2. JIT compiler for loops: no

  3. Build Javainterface: yes

  4. Do internal array bounds checking: no

  5. Build static libraries: no

  6. Build shared libraries: yes

  7. Dynamic Linking: yes (dlopen)

  8. Include support for GNU readline: yes

  9. 64-bit array dims and indexing: no

  10. OpenMP SMP multithreading: yes

    1. Build cross tools: no

thank you

ramkiran
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Easy:

sudo apt-get install libqt4-opengl-dev
Bendermh
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Your config.log shows that your system lacks the Qt development components necessary for building the octave-4.0 GUI:

configure:72095: checking for QT
configure:72103: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "$QT_MODULES"
Package QtOpenGL was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `QtOpenGL.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'QtOpenGL' found
configure:72106: $? = 1
configure:72121: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "$QT_MODULES"
Package QtOpenGL was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `QtOpenGL.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'QtOpenGL' found
configure:72124: $? = 1
No package 'QtOpenGL' found
configure:72152: result: no
configure:73317: WARNING: Qt libraries not found -- disabling GUI

You will need to install at least the Qt toolkit dependencies noted in the INSTALL.OCTAVE file that ships with the octave-4.0.0 source:

Qt
     GUI and utility libraries ().  Qt is required for building the GUI.
     It is a large framework, but the only components required are the
     GUI, core, and network modules.

The specific Ubuntu packages are libqtgui4 libqtcore4 and libqt4-network however unless disk space is severely limited you may wish to install the comprehensive libqt4-dev package instead

sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev

Although it's targeted at Debian rather than Ubuntu, you may find this additional resource helpful Octave for Debian systems: Compiling from source - The right way.

steeldriver
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I installed libqt4-dev, libqt4-opengl-dev and unixodbc-dev packages, then it worked.

Jens Erat
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