I am trying to install Octave from source on SUSE 10.1. Here is a list of what I did.

$ tar xvf octave-2.1.73.tar.gz

everything goes good from here, I then went to the folder by typing:

$ cd octave-2.1.73

I then type the following:

$ ./configure

and it tells me the following:

Jeff@linux:~/octave-2.1.73> ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.

I don't know how to get an acceptable C compiler in $PATH, if anyone can help I would appreciate it. I am new to linux and really don't know what I'm doing.

hi there,
go to yast, search for "gcc", install it and you should be fine.
regards,
slackie1000