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== Building Octave on Slackware == | == Building Octave on Slackware == | ||
Octave is contained in the [http://www.slackbuilds.org SlackBuilds repository]. To build | Octave is contained in the [http://www.slackbuilds.org SlackBuilds repository]. To build [http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/academic/octave/ Octave], you will also need the [http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/libraries/blas/ BLAS] and [http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/libraries/lapack/ LAPACK] libraries, which are not contained in a Slackware standard installation. Note that there are further dependencies which are optional, e.g. for me, GraphicsMagick. They are also listed on the Slackbuilds octave page. | ||
The rest of this page is just following the steps for slackbuilds one by one, so if you want to do it yourself, go to the | The rest of this page is just following the steps for slackbuilds one by one, so if you want to do it yourself, go to the [http://slackbuilds.org/howto/ Slackbuilds Howto] and follow these instructions one by one. | ||
To install the packages, go on their Slackbuilds page and donwload the source packages of lapack and octave (under "Source Downloads") and the SlackBuild (named blas.tar.gz, lapack.tar.gz, octave.tar.gz). If you want a more recent version of octave than the SlackBuild, download that, and please inform the SlackBuild maintainer that there is a newer version of octave. | To install the packages, go on their Slackbuilds page and donwload the source packages of lapack and octave (under "Source Downloads") and the SlackBuild (named blas.tar.gz, lapack.tar.gz, octave.tar.gz). If you want a more recent version of octave than the SlackBuild, download that, and please inform the SlackBuild maintainer that there is a newer version of octave. | ||