Octave not installing

[tkbrekken@…]

When running "sudo port install octave" on my MacBook Pro (10.5.6, dual Intel), I get the following error:

--->  Fetching fftw-3
--->  Attempting to fetch fftw-3.1.3.tar.gz from http://www.fftw.org/
--->  Attempting to fetch fftw-3.1.3.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.fftw.org/pub/fftw/
--->  Attempting to fetch fftw-3.1.3.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/pub/src/GNU/fftw/
--->  Attempting to fetch fftw-3.1.3.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/fftw-3
--->  Attempting to fetch fftw-3.1.3.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/
--->  Attempting to fetch fftw-3.1.3.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/fftw-3
Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: fftw-3 g95 gawk ghostscript cairo libpixman render xorg-renderproto xorg-util-macros xrender glpk gmp gsed hdf5 pcre qhull texlive texlive_base texi2html texlive_texmf-full texlive_texmf-minimal
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

[blb@…]

Two things: seeing it's trying to fetch from svn.macports.org suggests you are still using MacPorts 1.6, so you should use

sudo port selfupdate

to upgrade to 1.7.

Second, it's trying to install fftw-3 version 3.1.3 whereas that port is currently at version 3.2; after the selfupdate has completed, your port files should be updated so that it installs 3.2 instead.