Installing OCTAVE 3.0.3

[Robert Fong-tom]

Hi,
I tried to port Octave 3.0.3 and got the following errors. Any  
thoughts on where to go from here?

Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/local/ 
bin/a2p is being used by the active perl5.8 port.  Please deactivate  
this port first, or use the -f flag to force the activation.
Warning: the following items did not execute (for perl5):  
org.macports.activate
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gnuplot gd2  
autoconf help2man perl5 m4 automake libtool pdflib gsed hdf5 pcre  
qhull texinfo lzmautils texlive texlive_base texi2html texlive_texmf- 
full texlive_texmf-minimal
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

I am a neophyte so I don't really understand these errors. I should  
add that I previously downloaded the binary of Octave from Source- 
Forge (I think it was version 3.0.2) and it seem to run OK. But then  
I tried to install the Image package from that site and it did not  
work (functions were not available). So I tried to port Octave-Image  
from macports and got errors. I decided to start over. I uninstalled  
and cleaned the Octave-Image, and deleted the Octave binary that I  
first downloaded. Then ported Octave 3.0.3 which gave me the above  
error.

Bob