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== Installing Octave ==
This page is intended as a quick introduction for building octave on archlinux.


To simply install the latest stable release of GNU Octave on Arch Linux, just execute (as root):
If you just want to have the latest version of octave and not intend to edit the sources, consider install [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/octave-hg/?comments=all link octave-hg] from the AUR.


pacman -S octave
If you encounter any problems during the build process that are not mentioned here, take a look at [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/octave-hg/?comments=all link https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/octave-hg/?comments=all]. Some problems are listed in the comments, new dependencies are easy to extract from the PKGBUILD.


Using [https://aur.archlinux.org/ AUR], one can install a development version of Octave, for example [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/octave-hg/?comments=all octave-hg].  If you encounter any problems during the build process, some problems and solutions are listed in the comments on AUR.  New dependencies are easy to extract from the PKGBUILD.
== Build dependencies ==
To install the necessary build dependencies just execute (as root):


== Building Octave from source ==
pacman -S base-devel pcre mercurial gcc-fortran gperf perl rsync transfig arpack curl fftw fltk glpk glu graphicsmagick hdf5 java-environment qhull qscintilla texinfo gnuplot


: ''For general build instructions, see [[Building]].''
Assuming you have yaourt installed, the dependencies from the AUR are installed as follows (as normal user):


To install the Octave build dependencies on Arch Linux, just execute (as root):
yaourt -S gl2ps qrupdate epstool


pacman -S --needed base-devel pcre mercurial gcc-fortran gperf perl rsync transfig arpack curl fftw fltk glpk glu graphicsmagick hdf5 java-environment qhull qscintilla-qt5 texinfo gnuplot llvm texlive-bin icoutils gl2ps qrupdate epstool
== Building octave ==
Checkout octave as described in [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/get-involved.html link http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/get-involved.html].


If you wish to build the Octave documentation, install the following packets too:
It is recommended to build octave within a subdirectory.


  pacman -S graphviz doxygen
  ./bootstrap
mkdir build
cd build
../configure MOC=moc-qt4 UIC=uic-qt4
make -j3


== See also ==
The only difference from the build on other systems are the parameters given to configure. They are necessary due to a problem with some configuration and the coexistance of qt4 and qt5. For more information take a look at the comments of octave-hg in the AUR.


* https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Octave
If you encounter further problems or find more dependencies, feel free to adress them here.


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