Octave for macOS: Difference between revisions

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→‎Homebrew: By own experience this warning is not true and too scary for new users and thanks to brew bottles fast (just a few minutes).
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# Ensure brew itself has the latest definitions <pre>brew update</pre>
# Ensure brew itself has the latest definitions <pre>brew update</pre>
# Install Octave <ref>Homebrew has updated some of its scripts. To install Octave as of May 14, 2020, provide the migrated full path by running <code>brew install homebrew/core/octave</code> instead. [Citation needed!]</ref><pre>brew install octave</pre>
# Install Octave <ref>Homebrew has updated some of its scripts. To install Octave as of May 14, 2020, provide the migrated full path by running <code>brew install homebrew/core/octave</code> instead. [Citation needed!]</ref><pre>brew install octave</pre>
{{Note|The entire installation process can '''take up to a few hours'''. Octave has many dependencies which will be downloaded and installed prior to Octave. Precompiled binary packages called 'bottles' are available with default options for Octave and many of its dependencies, which speed up the installation.}}


==== Further reading ====
==== Further reading ====