#configuration error

BOSTON | Nigerian ISP’s configuration error disrupted Google services

BOSTON — A Nigerian internet service provider said Tuesday that a configuration error it made during a network upgrade caused a disruption of key Google services, routing traffic to China and Russia.

Prior to MainOne’s explanation Tuesday, there was speculation that Monday’s 74-minute data hijacking might have been intentional. Google’s search, cloud hosting and collaborative business tools were…

AI Workshop: Error 16 – What To Do About It?

Yesterday I got to experience something new today in Adobe Illustrator CC (2014). An error 16 configuration error. Sounds redundant? It might be. But it kept me from opening my copy of Illustrator on my iMac. (more…)

If you try to install a package in Octave programming language using

pkg install package_name.tar.gz

you might encounter this error which stops the installation of package. example :

configure: WARNING: no mkoctfile found on path ./configure: line 2918: conftest.cc: command not found configure: error: Could not run the configure script returned the following error: checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking for mkoctfile... no error: called from `pkg>configure_make' in file /usr/share/octave/3.2.4/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1240, column 2 error: called from: error: /usr/share/octave/3.2.4/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 714, column 5 error: /usr/share/octave/3.2.4/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 287, column 7

For me the reason was i have not installed the octave header files when i m installing octave on my linux (ubuntu 11.10). So installing the headers for my octave version fixed the problem.

In linux terminal type,

sudo apt-get install octave3.2-headers libncurses5-dev

And after the installation finished run octave in super user mood to install the packages.