For clarity: are you installing octave from the binary distribution
(i.e. using apt-get or dselect)?  If so, then I believe the problem with
gnuplot is that its license doesn't allow binary distribution, and so
it's not available that way.  Check out

http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/users-guide/packages.php#bin-exceptions

On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 10:42, David Spielberg wrote:
> I am trying to download Octave, as I have a number of MatLab 
> assignments upcoming in a linear algebra course.
> I can't seem to get it because it has multiple dependent packages and a 
> number aren't going through.
> It's having trouble with fftw, and claims gnuplot can't be found.
> 
> Any advice?  Does this simply mean that the packages that Octave needs 
> to run just aren't available and there's no way around it?
> 
> 
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