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For Debian, and Debian based distributions such as Ubuntu, specific solutions. | |||
== | == Pre-compiled binaries == | ||
Binary packages for | Binary packages for Octave and many Octave-Forge packages are provided by all versions of Debian and Ubuntu. These are the most well-tested binaries available and should work best for most users. | ||
Octave is often split over multiple packages to cover the different parts of it. Aside the {{codeline|octave}} package that installs GNU Octave, there is also {{codeline|octave-doc}}, {{codeline|octave-info}}, and {{codeline|octave-htmldoc}} for the documentation, {{codeline|liboctave-dev}} for the octave development library (required to install most packages), and {{codeline|octave-dbg}} for the debugging symbols. | |||
=== Troubleshooting === | |||
When installing Octave 3.2 in Ubuntu, broken packages install may cause an <span color="red">error: `pkg' undefined</span> error, previously reported as [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/octave3.2/+bug/465005 bug 465005]: | |||
... | |||
Setting up octave3.2 (3.2.2-2build1) ... | |||
error: `pkg' undefined near line 0 column 1 | |||
dpkg: error processing octave3.2 (--configure): | |||
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 | |||
Processing triggers for libc-bin ... | |||
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place | |||
Processing triggers for menu ... | |||
Errors were encountered while processing: | |||
octave3.2 | |||
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) | |||
Fix this by complete reinstall: | |||
sudo apt-get --purge remove octave3.2 | |||
sudo apt-get --purge remove octave3.2-common | |||
sudo apt-get install octave3.2 | |||
== Octave's PPA == | |||
However, for some Ubuntu releases the octave packages are old. The [https://launchpad.net/~octave GNU Octave Team] on Launchpad maintain a PPA providing a binary packages of the latest stable and unstable versions of Octave for all versions of Ubuntu. To set up your system to install these packages | |||
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:octave/stable | sudo apt-add-repository ppa:octave/stable | ||
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:octave/unstable | |||
sudo apt-get update | sudo apt-get update | ||
sudo apt-get install octave | sudo apt-get install octave | ||
== | == Compiling from source == | ||
The only ''tricky'' part is to install the dependencies. Once that is solved, installing from source should be as easy as {{Codeline|./configure && make && make install}}. See the manual for the [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Running-Configure-and-Make.html#Running-Configure-and-Make configure options]. | |||
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=== Dependencies === | |||
{{Note|different Debian versions may have slightly different package names but their differences should be pretty small, mostly limited to version numbers.}} | |||
==== The easy way ==== | |||
The easy way to install ''most'' of the necessary dependencies is to {{Codeline|sudo apt-get build-dep octave}}. This will install all packages necessary to build and prepare a Debian package for the octave version available on your system repositories. However: | The easy way to install ''most'' of the necessary dependencies is to {{Codeline|sudo apt-get build-dep octave}}. This will install all packages necessary to build and prepare a Debian package for the octave version available on your system repositories. However: | ||
* will install | * will install unecessary packages related to the building of a Debian package; | ||
* may miss some new dependencies; | * may miss some new dependencies; | ||
* may install packages that are no longer octave dependencies. | * may install packages that are no longer octave dependencies. | ||
==== The right way ==== | ==== The right way ==== | ||
The best way is to select and install all the dependencies as listed on the {{Path|INSTALL.OCTAVE}} file. The following is their package names in Debian repositories (they will have their own dependencies which your package maintainer will solve automatically). | |||
{{Warning|Debian repositories has several libraries for dealing with HDF data files. The recommended is {{Codeline|libhdf5-serial-dev}}. However, the {{Forge|msh|msh package}} requires [http://www.geuz.org/gmsh/ gmsh] which is incompatible with it.}} | |||
{{Warning|the GraphicsMagick++ library (libgraphicsmagick++-dev) on the Debian repositories was compiled with quantum 8 which limits reading images to 8 bit. The solution is to recompile [[GraphicsMagick]] with quantum | |||
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{{Note|if only the native graphics toolkit will be used, gnuplot will not be necessary.}} | |||
{{Warning| | |||
* build tools | |||
:<pre>g++ gcc gfortran make</pre> | |||
* external packages | |||
:<pre>libblas-dev liblapack-dev libpcre3-dev</pre> | |||
* optional but ''strongly'' recommended. Check the [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/External-Packages.html Octave manual] for more information on them. Packages marked with * are virtual packages (you'll have to pick one of the displayed versions). | |||
:{| class="wikitable" | |||
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! Dependency !! Debian Squeeze !! Ubuntu X | |||
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| ARPACK || libarpack2-dev || | |||
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| cURL || libcurl4-gnutls-dev || | |||
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| FFTW3 || libfftw3-dev || | |||
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| FLTK || libfltk-dev * || | |||
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| fontconfig || libfontconfig1-dev || | |||
|- | |||
| FreeType || libfreetype6-dev || | |||
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| GLPK || libglpk-dev || | |||
|- | |||
| GNU Readline || libreadline-dev || | |||
|- | |||
| gnuplot || gnuplot || | |||
|- | |||
| GraphicsMagick++ || libgraphicsmagick++-dev || | |||
|- | |||
| HDF5 || libhdf5-serial-dev || | |||
|- | |||
| OpenGL || libgl-dev * || | |||
|- | |||
| Qhull || libqhull-dev || | |||
|- | |||
| QRUPDATE || libqrupdate-dev || | |||
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| SuiteSparse || libsuitesparse-dev || | |||
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| makeinfo || texinfo || | |||
|- | |||
| zlib || zlib1g-dev || | |||
|- | |||
|} | |||
==== Building development version ==== | |||
If you are building development versions, you'll require some more packages as listed on {{Path|etc/HACKING}} and {{Path|INSTALL}}. Many of them will already be installed on your system. | |||
Note that the current development release you shuld run {{Codeline|./bootstrap}} instead of the old {{Codeline|./autogen}} | |||
* | * development tools | ||
:<pre>autoconf automake bison flex gperf gzip libtool make perl rsync tar</pre> | |||
* dependencies for the development release | |||
:{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
! Dependency !! Debian Squeeze !! Ubuntu X | |||
|- | |||
| GTK theme? || gtk2-engines-pixbuf || | |||
|- | |||
| Java JDK || openjdk-7-jdk || | |||
|- | |||
| LLVM || libfftw3-dev || | |||
|- | |||
| QScintilla || libqscintilla2-8 || | |||
|- | |||
| Qt || libqtcore4 libqtwebkit4 libqt4-network libqtgui4 || | |||
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|} | |||
[[Category:Installation]] | [[Category:Installation]] | ||