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
Build tools	C++, C, and Fortran compilers	build-essential
	GNU Make	make
	Unix utilities: gawk, gperf, less, ncurses	gawk, gperf, less, libncurses5-dev
	Bison	bison
	Flex	flex
	Autoconf	autoconf
	Automake	automake
	Libtool	libtool
Documentation tools	epstool	epstool
	FTGL	libftgl-dev
	GL2PS	libgl2ps-dev
	pstoedit	pstoedit
	Texi2HTML	texi2html
	Texinfo	texinfo
	TeX Live generic	texlive-generic-recommended
	TeX Live	texlive-latex-base
	transfig	transfig
External tools	BLAS	libatlas-base-dev
	LAPACK	liblapack-dev
	PCRE	libpcre3-dev
	GNU Readline	libreadline-dev
	ARPACK	libarpack2-dev
	cURL	curl
	FFTW3	libfftw3-dev
	FLTK	libfltk1.3-dev
	fontconfig	fontconfig
	FreeType	libfreetype6-dev
	GLPK	libglpk-dev
	gnuplot	gnuplot
	GraphicsMagick++	libgraphicsmagick++1-dev
	HDF5	libhdf5-dev
	OpenGL	libgl-dev
	Qhull	libqhull-dev
	QRUPDATE	libqrupdate-dev
	SuiteSparsesuitesparse-dev}}	suitesparse
	zlib	zlib1g-dev