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This page is intended as a quick introduction for building octave on archlinux. For more generic and recent build instructions, take a look at [[Building]].
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 octave-hg] from the AUR. If you want to have a stable version from the repository, just execute
pacman -S octave


sudo pacman -Syu octave
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.


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 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.
== Building Octave ==


== Build dependencies ==
: ''For general build instructions, see [[Building]].''
To install the necessary build dependencies for the full functionality (including JIT Compiler and so on) just execute (as root):


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
To install the Octave build dependencies on Arch Linux, just execute (as root):
Assuming you have yaourt installed, the dependencies from the AUR are installed as follows (as normal user):


  yaourt -S 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


If you plan to build the documentation, install the following packets too:
If you wish to build the Octave documentation, install the following packets too:


  pacman -S graphviz doxygen
  pacman -S graphviz doxygen


== Building octave ==
== See also ==
Checkout octave as described in [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/get-involved.html http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/get-involved.html].


It is recommended to build octave within a subdirectory.
* https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Octave
 
./bootstrap
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make -j3
 
If you encounter further problems or find more dependencies, feel free to adress them here.


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