Octave for RedHat systems

For Red Hat and Red Hat based distributions such as CentOS

Building from source

Dependencies

The right way

• build tools

gcc gcc-gfortran make

• external packages

blas-devel lapack-devel pcre-devel

• optional but strongly recommended. Check the Octave manual for more information on them..

Dependency	CentOS 5	CentOS 6	CentOS 7
ARPACK	arpack-devel	arpack-devel	arpack-devel
cURL	curl-devel	curl-devel	curl-devel
epstool	epstool	epstool	epstool
FFTW3	fftw3-devel	fftw3-devel	fftw3-devel
fig2dev	transfig	transfig	transfig
FLTK	fltk-devel	fltk-devel	fltk-devel
fontconfig	fontconfig-devel	fontconfig-devel	fontconfig-devel
FreeType	freetype-devel	freetype-devel	freetype-devel
gl2ps	gl2ps-devel	gl2ps-devel	gl2ps-devel
GLPK		glpk-devel	glpk-devel
GNU Readline	readline-devel	readline-devel	readline-devel
gnuplot		gnuplot	gnuplot
GraphicsMagick++	GraphicsMagick-c++-devel	GraphicsMagick-c++-devel	GraphicsMagick-c++-devel
HDF5	hdf5-devel	hdf5-devel	hdf5-devel
Java JDK	java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel	java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel	java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel
libsndfile	libsndfile-devel	libsndfile-devel	libsndfile-devel
LLVM		llvm-devel	llvm-devel
lpr	cups	cups	cups
makeinfo	texinfo	texinfo	texinfo
OpenGL	mesa-libGL-devel	mesa-libGL-devel	mesa-libGL-devel
OSMesa		mesa-libOSMesa-devel	mesa-libOSMesa-devel
PortAudio	portaudio-devel	portaudio-devel	portaudio-devel
pstoedit		pstoedit
Qhull	qhull-devel	qhull-devel	qhull-devel
QRUPDATE	qrupdate-devel	qrupdate-devel	qrupdate-devel
QScintilla		qscintilla-devel	qscintilla-devel
Qt	qt4-devel	qt4-devel	qt4-devel
SuiteSparse	suitesparse-devel	suitesparse-devel	suitesparse-devel
Xft	libXft-devel	libXft-devel	libXft-devel
zlib	zlib-devel	zlib-devel	zlib-devel