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General information about building the Octave source for different operating systems. | General information about building the Octave source for different operating systems. | ||
== General steps == | |||
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! Build from the development repository | |||
! Build from a release | |||
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| colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | Install all [[#Dependencies|build dependencies]] (see below). | |||
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hg clone https://www.octave.org/hg/octave && \ | |||
cd octave && \ | |||
./bootstrap | |||
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wget https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/octave/octave-{{Release}}.tar.gz && \ | |||
tar -xzf octave-{{Release}}.tar.gz | |||
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| colspan="2" | | |||
mkdir .build && \ | |||
cd .build && \ | |||
./../configure --prefix=$HOME/my_octave && \ <ref><code>--prefix</code> determines the installation location.</ref> | |||
make -j2 && \ <ref>Depending on your system and processor count, use a larger number of parallel jobs, e.g. <code>-j8</code>.</ref> | |||
make check && \ | |||
make install | |||
|} | |||
* Linux | * Linux | ||
** [[Octave for Arch Linux|Arch Linux]] | ** [[Octave for Arch Linux|Arch Linux]] | ||
** [[Octave for Debian systems|Debian (and Debian-based)]] | ** [[Octave for Debian systems|Debian (and Debian-based)]] | ||
** [[Octave for RedHat Systems|RedHat (and RedHat-based)]] | ** [[Octave for RedHat Systems|RedHat (and RedHat-based)]] | ||
** [[Octave for Slackware|Slackware]] | ** [[Octave for Slackware|Slackware]] | ||
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There are also instructions in the [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Installation.html manual]. | There are also instructions in the [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Installation.html manual]. | ||
==Dependencies== | == Dependencies == | ||
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| TeX Live generic | | TeX Live generic | ||
| Mixed bag of generic macro packages and fonts. | | Mixed bag of generic macro packages and fonts. | ||
| Freely redistributable as defined by the Free Software Foundation | | Freely redistributable as defined by the Free Software Foundation | ||
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== Footnotes == | |||
<references/> | |||
[[Category:Building]] | [[Category:Building]] | ||