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For Debian, and Debian based distributions such as Ubuntu, specific solutions. | |||
== | == Pre-compiled binaries == | ||
== Compiling from source == | |||
The only ''tricky'' part is to install the dependencies. Once that is solved, installing from source should be as easy as {{Codeline|./configure && make && make install}}. See the manual for the [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Running-Configure-and-Make.html#Running-Configure-and-Make configure options]. | |||
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=== Dependencies === | |||
{{Note|different Debian versions may have slightly different package names but their differences should be pretty small, mostly limited to version numbers.}} | |||
==== The easy way ==== | |||
The easy way to install ''most'' of the necessary dependencies is to {{Codeline|sudo apt-get build-dep octave}}. This will install all packages necessary to build and prepare a Debian package for the octave version available on your system repositories. However: | The easy way to install ''most'' of the necessary dependencies is to {{Codeline|sudo apt-get build-dep octave}}. This will install all packages necessary to build and prepare a Debian package for the octave version available on your system repositories. However: | ||
* will install | * will install unecessary packages related to the building of a Debian package; | ||
* may miss some new dependencies; | * may miss some new dependencies; | ||
* may install packages that are no longer octave dependencies. | * may install packages that are no longer octave dependencies. | ||
==== The right way ==== | ==== The right way ==== | ||
The best way is to select and install all the dependencies as listed on the {{Path|INSTALL.OCTAVE}} file. The following is their package names in Debian repositories (they will have their own dependencies which your package maintainer will solve automatically). | |||
{{Warning|Debian repositories has several libraries for dealing with HDF data files. The recommended is {{Codeline|libhdf5-serial-dev}}. However, the {{Forge|msh|msh package}} requires [http://www.geuz.org/gmsh/ gmsh] which is incompatible with it.}} | |||
{{Warning|the GraphicsMagick++ library (libgraphicsmagick++-dev) on the Debian repositories was compiled with quantum 8 which limits reading images to 8 bit. The solution is to recompile [[GraphicsMagick]] with quantum | |||
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{{Note|if only the native graphics toolkit will be used, gnuplot will not be necessary.}} | |||
{{Warning| | |||
* build tools | |||
:<pre>g++ gcc gfortran make</pre> | |||
* external packages | |||
:<pre>libblas-dev liblapack-dev libpcre3-dev</pre> | |||
* optional but ''strongly'' recommended | |||
:<pre>libreadline-dev libarpack2-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libfftw3-dev libfltk-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libglpk-dev libgraphicsmagick++-dev gnuplot libhdf5-serial-dev libgl-dev libqhull-dev libqrupdate-dev libsuitesparse-dev texinfo zlib1g-dev</pre> | |||
==== Building development version ==== | |||
If you are building development versions, you'll require some more packages as listed on {{Path|etc/HACKING}}. Many of them will already be installed on your system. | |||
Note that the current development release you shuld run {{Codeline|./bootstrap}} instead of the old {{Codeline|./autogen}} | |||
* | * development tools | ||
* dependencies for the development release | |||
:<pre>qtcreator libqscintilla2-8 libqscintilla2-dev gtk2-engines-pixbuf</pre> | |||
[[Category:Installation]] | [[Category:Installation]] | ||