Configure problems with octave4.2.1 on redhat7

Dear octave-support-team,

I have a curve fitting task of hyperelastic material laws to describe the mechanical behavior of rubber. I have an octave script that uses fmincon, fminsearch or fminunc. It works well with a portable octave version on my notebook at home. But I need it for business.

On my workstation I have a redhat7-OS (3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64) and an octave4.2.1 distribution (s. CL output below). It was already installed and I have no admin rights. Octave works with basic commands well. But there are no packages available. When I tried to install packages like io, struct or optim I always got the ERROR message shown the last 20 lines of octave output below. I read in the manual for configuration run the shell script configure. But I can't find the shell script.

So my questions are:

1.       Is the configure shell script the solution of my problem?

2.       Where can I find it?

3.       Can I run the required script without sodu-commands?

Please help me to solve the problem.

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% terminal output
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#-----------------------------------------------------------#
     Environment for octave4.2.1
     Close with "exit"
#---------------- Available Programs: ----------------------#
mkoctfile        octave        octave-cli        octave-config
mkoctfile-4.2.1  octave-4.2.1  octave-cli-4.2.1  octave-config-4.2.1
% ==============================================================================
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% octave output
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>> pkg list
no packages installed.
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% ERROR message
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...
make: *** [csvconcat.oct] Error 1
make: *** [csvexplode.oct] Error 1
make: Entering directory `/tmp/oct-YioybP/io-2.6.3/src'
/appl/opensoft/octave/4.2.1/redhatel7/octave/4.2.1/bin/mkoctfile-4.2.1 csvexplode.cc
/appl/opensoft/octave/4.2.1/redhatel7/octave/4.2.1/bin/mkoctfile-4.2.1 csv2cell.cc
/appl/opensoft/octave/4.2.1/redhatel7/octave/4.2.1/bin/mkoctfile-4.2.1 csvconcat.cc
/appl/opensoft/octave/4.2.1/redhatel7/octave/4.2.1/bin/mkoctfile-4.2.1 cell2csv.cc
/appl/opensoft/octave/4.2.1/redhatel7/octave/4.2.1/bin/mkoctfile-4.2.1 col2num.cc
/appl/opensoft/octave/4.2.1/redhatel7/octave/4.2.1/bin/mkoctfile-4.2.1 num2col.cc
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/oct-YioybP/io-2.6.3/src'

pkg: error running `make' for the io package.
error: called from
    configure_make at line 95 column 9
    install at line 192 column 7
    pkg at line 394 column 9

Best regards,
Ingo

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