Octave for GNU/Linux: Difference between revisions

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→‎Debian and Debian-based (such as Ubuntu): remove the <version> which is no longer valid and doc package which are installed automatically.

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 =Debian and Debian-based (such as Ubuntu)=
-Either use {{Codeline|aptitude}} or {{Codeline|apt-get}}:
+Simply install Octave from your distribution repository:
-    # aptitude install octave<version> octave<version>-doc
+ apt-get install install octave
-where {{Codeline|<version>}} must be substituted by the appropriate string.
+For old versions of Ubuntu that only supply old versions of Octave, consider using Octave's PPA. For more details, see the [[Debian]] specific instructions page.
-The Octave-Forge packages are spread over many Debian packages. All Octave-Forge packages will probably be found with the command:
+There are also Debian packages for each of the Octave-Forge packages, usually named {{codeline|octave<pkgname>}}, e.g, {{codeline|octave-image}} and {{codeline|octave-statistics}} for the image processing and statistics package respectively. A complete list of them can be found with the command:
-    $ aptitude search ?description\(octave-forge\)
+ aptitude search ?description\(octave-forge\)
-For more details, see the [[Debian]] specific instructions page.
 =Fedora=