Building for Linux systems
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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
See Octave for Debian systems for instructions and list of dependencies.
Redhat and derivatives
Dependencies
Gentoo and derivatives
Dependencies
Slackware and derivatives
Dependencies
Others
Dependencies
| Task | Dependency | ArchLinux |
|---|---|---|
| Build tools | C++, C, and Fortran compilers | gcc-fortran
|
| GNU Make | make
| |
| Unix utilities: gawk, gperf, less, ncurses | gawk, gperf, less, ncurses
| |
| Bison | bison
| |
| Flex | flex
| |
| Autoconf | autoconf
| |
| Automake | automake
| |
| Libtool | libtool
| |
| Documentation tools | epstool | epstool (AUR)
|
| FTGL | ftgl
| |
| GL2PS | gl2ps (AUR)
| |
| pstoedit | pstoedit
| |
| Texi2HTML | texi2html
| |
| Texinfo | texinfo
| |
| TeX Live generic | texlive-genericextra
| |
| TeX Live | texlive-core
| |
| transfig | transfig
| |
| External tools | BLAS | atlas-lapack (AUR)
|
| LAPACK | atlas-lapack (AUR)
| |
| PCRE | pcre
| |
| GNU Readline | readline
| |
| ARPACK | arpack
| |
| cURL | curl
| |
| FFTW3 | fftw
| |
| FLTK | fltk
| |
| fontconfig | fontconfig
| |
| FreeType | freetype2
| |
| GLPK | glpk
| |
| gnuplot | gnuplot
| |
| GraphicsMagick++ | graphicsmagick
| |
| HDF5 | hdf5
| |
| OpenGL | mesa-libgl
| |
| Qhull | qhull
| |
| QRUPDATE | qrupdate (AUR)
| |
| SuiteSparse | suitesparse
| |
| zlib | zlib
|
For more information about ArchLinux, check out Octave for Arch Linux.