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=Debian and Debian-based (such as Ubuntu)=
=Debian and Debian-based (such as Ubuntu)=


Either use {{Codeline|aptitude}} or {{Codeline|apt-get}}:
Simply install Octave from your distribution repository:


    # aptitude install octave<version> octave<version>-doc
apt-get install install octave


where {{Codeline|<version>}} must be substituted by the appropriate string.
For old versions of Ubuntu that only supply old versions of Octave, consider using Octave's PPA. For more details, see the [[Debian]] specific instructions page.


The Octave-Forge packages are spread over many Debian packages. All Octave-Forge packages will probably be found with the command:  
There are also Debian packages for each of the Octave-Forge packages, usually named {{codeline|octave<pkgname>}}, e.g, {{codeline|octave-image}} and {{codeline|octave-statistics}} for the image processing and statistics package respectively. A complete list of them can be found with the command:  


    $ aptitude search ?description\(octave-forge\)
aptitude search ?description\(octave-forge\)
 
For more details, see the [[Debian]] specific instructions page.


=Fedora=
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