Building for Linux systems
Instructions for building Octave on different Linux systems. General information about dependencies are listed on the Building page. Only package names are listed here.
Debian and derivatives
Dependencies
Task | Dependency | Ubuntu |
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Build tools | C++, C, and Fortran compilers | build-essential
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GNU Make | make
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Unix utilities: gawk, gperf, less, ncurses | gawk , gperf , less , libncurses5-dev
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Bison | bison
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Flex | flex
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Autoconf | autoconf
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Automake | automake
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Libtool | libtool
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Documentation tools | epstool | epstool
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FTGL | libftgl-dev
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GL2PS | libgl2ps-dev
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pstoedit | pstoedit
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Texi2HTML | texi2html
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Texinfo | texinfo
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TeX Live generic | texlive-generic-recommended
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TeX Live | texlive-latex-base
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transfig | transfig
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External tools | BLAS | libatlas-base-dev
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LAPACK | liblapack-dev
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PCRE | libpcre3-dev
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GNU Readline | libreadline-dev
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ARPACK | libarpack2-dev
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cURL | curl
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FFTW3 | libfftw3-dev
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FLTK | libfltk1.3-dev
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fontconfig | fontconfig
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FreeType | libfreetype6-dev
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GLPK | libglpk-dev
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gnuplot | gnuplot
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GraphicsMagick++ | libgraphicsmagick++1-dev
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HDF5 | libhdf5-dev
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OpenGL | libgl-dev
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Qhull | libqhull-dev
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QRUPDATE | libqrupdate-dev
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SuiteSparsesuitesparse-dev}} | suitesparse
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zlib | zlib1g-dev
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Redhat and derivatives
Dependencies
Gentoo and derivatives
Dependencies
Slackware and derivatives
Dependencies
Others
Dependencies
Task | Dependency | ArchLinux |
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Build tools | C++, C, and Fortran compilers | gcc-fortran
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GNU Make | make
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Unix utilities: gawk, gperf, less, ncurses | gawk , gperf , less , ncurses
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Bison | bison
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Flex | flex
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Autoconf | autoconf
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Automake | automake
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Libtool | libtool
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Documentation tools | epstool | epstool (AUR)
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FTGL | ftgl
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GL2PS | gl2ps (AUR)
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pstoedit | pstoedit
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Texi2HTML | texi2html
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Texinfo | texinfo
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TeX Live generic | texlive-genericextra
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TeX Live | texlive-core
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transfig | transfig
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External tools | BLAS | atlas-lapack (AUR)
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LAPACK | atlas-lapack (AUR)
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PCRE | pcre
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GNU Readline | readline
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ARPACK | arpack
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cURL | curl
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FFTW3 | fftw
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FLTK | fltk
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fontconfig | fontconfig
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FreeType | freetype2
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GLPK | glpk
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gnuplot | gnuplot
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GraphicsMagick++ | graphicsmagick
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HDF5 | hdf5
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OpenGL | mesa-libgl
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Qhull | qhull
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QRUPDATE | qrupdate (AUR)
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SuiteSparse | suitesparse
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zlib | zlib
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For more information about ArchLinux, check out Octave for Arch Linux.