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=== Octave's Personal Package Archive (PPA) for Ubuntu ===
=== Octave's Personal Package Archive (PPA) for Ubuntu ===


For some Ubuntu releases the octave packages are too old (Ubuntu 12.04 only has Octave version 3.2).  The [https://launchpad.net/~octave GNU Octave Team] on Launchpad maintains a PPA providing more up to date packages of Octave for all versions of Ubuntu. These are backported from Debian unstable (the Ubuntu Octave Team needs help testing and preparing the packages so if you can help with this, contact [[User:Mtmiller|Mike Miller]]). To set up your system to install these packages:
For some Ubuntu releases the Octave packages are too old (Ubuntu 12.04 only has Octave version 3.2).  The [https://launchpad.net/~octave GNU Octave Team] on Launchpad maintains a PPA providing more up to date packages of Octave for all versions of Ubuntu. These are backported from Debian unstable (the Ubuntu Octave Team needs help testing and preparing the packages so if you can help with this, contact [[User:Mtmiller|Mike Miller]]). To set up your system to install these packages:


  sudo apt-add-repository ppa:octave/stable
  sudo apt-add-repository ppa:octave/stable
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install octave
  sudo apt-get install octave
=== Linuxbrew ===
: ''See [[Octave for GNU/Linux#Linuxbrew]]''


== Compiling from source ==
== Compiling from source ==
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==== The right way ====
==== The right way ====


The right way is to select and install all the dependencies as listed in the {{Path|INSTALL.OCTAVE}} file. The following are their package names in Debian repositories (they will have their own dependencies which your package manager will solve automatically). If you are building development versions, you'll require some more packages as listed on {{Path|etc/HACKING}} and {{Path|INSTALL}}. Many of them will already be installed on your system. Install the dependencies by typing
The right way is to select and install all the dependencies as listed in the {{Path|INSTALL.OCTAVE}} file (if it is not in your source tree build it doing <code>make INSTALL.OCTAVE</code>). The following are their package names in Debian repositories (they will have their own dependencies which your package manager will solve automatically). If you are building development versions, you'll require some more packages as listed on {{Path|etc/HACKING.md}} and {{Path|INSTALL}}. Many of them will already be installed on your system. Install the dependencies by typing


  sudo apt-get install
  sudo apt-get install
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:{| class="wikitable"
:{| class="wikitable"
|-
|-
! Dependency        !! Debian 8 Jessie (stable)            !! Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS)
! Dependency        !! Debian 8 Jessie (stable)            !! Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus (LTS)
|-
|-
!colspan="3" style="text-align:center;" | Required build tools
!colspan="3" style="text-align:center;" | Required build tools
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| C compiler
| C compiler
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/gcc gcc]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/gcc gcc]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/gcc gcc]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/gcc gcc]
|-
|-
| C++ compiler
| C++ compiler
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/g++ g++]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/g++ g++]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/g++ g++]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/g++ g++]
|-
|-
| Fortran compiler
| Fortran compiler
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/gfortran gfortran]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/gfortran gfortran]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/gfortran gfortran]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/gfortran gfortran]
|-
|-
| GNU make
| GNU make
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/make make]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/make make]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/make make]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/make make]
|-
|-
!colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"| Required external packages
!colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"| Required external packages
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| BLAS
| BLAS
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libblas-dev libblas-dev]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libblas-dev libblas-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libblas-dev libblas-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libblas-dev libblas-dev]
|-
|-
| LAPACK
| LAPACK
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/liblapack-dev liblapack-dev]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/liblapack-dev liblapack-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/liblapack-dev liblapack-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/liblapack-dev liblapack-dev]
|-
|-
| PCRE
| PCRE
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libpcre3-dev libpcre3-dev]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libpcre3-dev libpcre3-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libpcre3-dev libpcre3-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libpcre3-dev libpcre3-dev]
|-
|-
!colspan="3"  style="text-align:center;"| ''Strongly'' recommended. Check the [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/External-Packages.html Octave manual] for more information.
!colspan="3"  style="text-align:center;"| ''Strongly'' recommended. Check the [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/External-Packages.html Octave manual] for more information.
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| ARPACK
| ARPACK
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libarpack2-dev libarpack2-dev]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libarpack2-dev libarpack2-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libarpack2-dev libarpack2-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libarpack2-dev libarpack2-dev]
|-
|-
| cURL
| cURL
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libcurl4-gnutls-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libcurl4-gnutls-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libcurl4-gnutls-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libcurl4-gnutls-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev]
|-
|-
| epstool
| epstool
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/epstool epstool]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/epstool epstool]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/epstool epstool]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/epstool epstool]
|-
|-
| FFTW3
| FFTW3
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libfftw3-dev libfftw3-dev]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libfftw3-dev libfftw3-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libfftw3-dev libfftw3-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libfftw3-dev libfftw3-dev]
|-
|-
| fig2dev
| fig2dev
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/transfig transfig]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/transfig transfig]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/transfig transfig]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/transfig transfig]
|-
|-
| FLTK
| FLTK
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libfltk1.3-dev libfltk1.3-dev]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libfltk1.3-dev libfltk1.3-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libfltk1.3-dev libfltk1.3-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libfltk1.3-dev libfltk1.3-dev]
|-
|-
| fontconfig
| fontconfig
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libfontconfig1-dev libfontconfig1-dev]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libfontconfig1-dev libfontconfig1-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libfontconfig1-dev libfontconfig1-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libfontconfig1-dev libfontconfig1-dev]
|-
|-
| FreeType
| FreeType
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libfreetype6-dev libfreetype6-dev]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libfreetype6-dev libfreetype6-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libfreetype6-dev libfreetype6-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libfreetype6-dev libfreetype6-dev]
|-
|-
| gl2ps
| gl2ps
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libgl2ps-dev libgl2ps-dev]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libgl2ps-dev libgl2ps-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libgl2ps-dev libgl2ps-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libgl2ps-dev libgl2ps-dev]
|-
|-
| GLPK
| GLPK
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libglpk-dev libglpk-dev]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libglpk-dev libglpk-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libglpk-dev libglpk-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libglpk-dev libglpk-dev]
|-
|-
| GNU Readline
| GNU Readline
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libreadline-dev libreadline-dev]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libreadline-dev libreadline-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libreadline-dev libreadline-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libreadline-dev libreadline-dev]
|-
|-
| gnuplot
| gnuplot
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/gnuplot gnuplot]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/gnuplot gnuplot]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/gnuplot gnuplot-x11]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/gnuplot gnuplot-x11]
|-
|-
| GraphicsMagick++
| GraphicsMagick++
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libgraphicsmagick++1-dev libgraphicsmagick++1-dev]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libgraphicsmagick++1-dev libgraphicsmagick++1-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libgraphicsmagick++1-dev libgraphicsmagick++1-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libgraphicsmagick++1-dev libgraphicsmagick++1-dev]
|-
|-
| HDF5
| HDF5
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libhdf5-serial-dev libhdf5-serial-dev]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libhdf5-serial-dev libhdf5-serial-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libhdf5-serial-dev libhdf5-serial-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libhdf5-serial-dev libhdf5-serial-dev]
|-
|-
| Java JDK
| Java JDK
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/openjdk-7-jdk openjdk-7-jdk]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/openjdk-7-jdk openjdk-7-jdk]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/openjdk-7-jdk openjdk-7-jdk]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/openjdk-8-jdk openjdk-8-jdk]
|-
|-
| libsndfile
| libsndfile
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libsndfile1-dev libsndfile1-dev]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libsndfile1-dev libsndfile1-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libsndfile1-dev libsndfile1-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libsndfile1-dev libsndfile1-dev]
|-
|-
| LLVM
| LLVM
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/llvm-dev llvm-dev]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/llvm-dev llvm-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/llvm-dev llvm-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/llvm-dev llvm-dev]
|-
|-
| lpr
| lpr
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/lpr lpr]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/lpr lpr]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/lpr lpr]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/lpr lpr]
|-
|-
| makeinfo
| makeinfo
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/texinfo texinfo]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/texinfo texinfo]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/texinfo texinfo]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/texinfo texinfo]
|-
|-
| OpenGL
| OpenGL
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libgl1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dev]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libgl1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libgl1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libgl1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dev]
|-
|-
| OSMesa
| OSMesa
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libosmesa6-dev libosmesa6-dev]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libosmesa6-dev libosmesa6-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libosmesa6-dev libosmesa6-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libosmesa6-dev libosmesa6-dev]
|-
|-
| pstoedit
| pstoedit
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/pstoedit pstoedit]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/pstoedit pstoedit]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/pstoedit pstoedit]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/pstoedit pstoedit]
|-
|-
| PortAudio
| PortAudio
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/portaudio19-dev portaudio19-dev]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/portaudio19-dev portaudio19-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/portaudio19-dev portaudio19-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/portaudio19-dev portaudio19-dev]
|-
|-
| Qhull
| Qhull
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libqhull-dev libqhull-dev]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libqhull-dev libqhull-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libqhull-dev libqhull-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libqhull-dev libqhull-dev]
|-
|-
| QRUPDATE
| QRUPDATE
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libqrupdate-dev libqrupdate-dev]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libqrupdate-dev libqrupdate-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libqrupdate-dev libqrupdate-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libqrupdate-dev libqrupdate-dev]
|-
|-
| QScintilla
| QScintilla
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libqscintilla2-dev libqscintilla2-dev]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libqscintilla2-dev libqscintilla2-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libqscintilla2-dev libqscintilla2-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libqscintilla2-dev libqscintilla2-dev]
|-
|-
| Qt
| Qt
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[https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libqt4-opengl-dev libqt4-opengl-dev]
[https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libqt4-opengl-dev libqt4-opengl-dev]
||
||
[http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libqt4-dev libqt4-dev]
[http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libqt4-dev libqt4-dev]
[http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libqtcore4 libqtcore4]
[http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libqtcore4 libqtcore4]
[http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libqtwebkit4 libqtwebkit4]
[http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libqtwebkit4 libqtwebkit4]
[http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libqt4-network libqt4-network]
[http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libqt4-network libqt4-network]
[http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libqtgui4 libqtgui4]
[http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libqtgui4 libqtgui4]
[http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libqt4-opengl-dev libqt4-opengl-dev]
[http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libqt4-opengl-dev libqt4-opengl-dev]
|-
|-
| SuiteSparse
| SuiteSparse
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libsuitesparse-dev libsuitesparse-dev]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libsuitesparse-dev libsuitesparse-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libsuitesparse-dev libsuitesparse-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libsuitesparse-dev libsuitesparse-dev]
|-
|-
| Texlive
| Texlive
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| Xft
| Xft
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libxft-dev libxft-dev]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libxft-dev libxft-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libxft-dev libxft-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial3/libxft-dev libxft-dev]
|-
|-
| zlib
| zlib
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/zlib1g-dev zlib1g-dev]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/zlib1g-dev zlib1g-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/zlib1g-dev zlib1g-dev]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/zlib1g-dev zlib1g-dev]
|-
|-
!colspan="3"  style="text-align:center;"|  Required to build from development sources
!colspan="3"  style="text-align:center;"|  Required to build from development sources
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| Autoconf
| Autoconf
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/autoconf autoconf]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/autoconf autoconf]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/autoconf autoconf]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/autoconf autoconf]
|-
|-
| Automake
| Automake
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/automake automake]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/automake automake]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/automake automake]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/automake automake]
|-
|-
| Bison
| Bison
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/bison bison]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/bison bison]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/bison bison]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/bison bison]
|-
|-
| Flex
| Flex
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/flex flex]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/flex flex]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/flex flex]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/flex flex]
|-
|-
| gperf
| gperf
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/gperf gperf]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/gperf gperf]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/gperf gperf]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/gperf gperf]
|-
|-
| gzip
| gzip
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/gzip gzip]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/gzip gzip]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/gzip gzip]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/gzip gzip]
|-
|-
| icoutils
| icoutils
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/icoutils icoutils]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/icoutils icoutils]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/icoutils icoutils]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/icoutils icoutils]
|-
|-
| rsvg-convert
| rsvg-convert
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/librsvg2-bin librsvg2-bin]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/librsvg2-bin librsvg2-bin]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/librsvg2-bin librsvg2-bin]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/librsvg2-bin librsvg2-bin]
|-
|-
| libtool
| libtool
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libtool libtool]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libtool libtool]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libtool libtool]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libtool libtool]
|-
|-
| perl
| perl
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/perl perl]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/perl perl]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/perl perl]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/perl perl]
|-
|-
| rsync
| rsync
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/rsync rsync]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/rsync rsync]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/rsync rsync]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/rsync rsync]
|-
|-
| tar
| tar
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/tar tar]
|| [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/tar tar]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/tar tar]
|| [http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/tar tar]
|}
|}
To install all of these on Ubuntu 16.04, type
sudo apt-get install gcc g++ gfortran make libblas-dev liblapack-dev libpcre3-dev libarpack2-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev epstool libfftw3-dev transfig libfltk1.3-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libgl2ps-dev libglpk-dev libreadline-dev gnuplot-x11 libgraphicsmagick++1-dev libhdf5-serial-dev openjdk-8-jdk libsndfile1-dev llvm-dev lpr texinfo libgl1-mesa-dev libosmesa6-dev pstoedit portaudio19-dev libqhull-dev libqrupdate-dev libqscintilla2-dev libqt4-dev libqtcore4 libqtwebkit4 libqt4-network libqtgui4 libqt4-opengl-dev libsuitesparse-dev texlive libxft-dev zlib1g-dev autoconf automake bison flex gperf gzip icoutils librsvg2-bin libtool perl rsync tar
To install all of these on Ubuntu 18.10, type  (Needs more testing)
sudo apt-get install gcc g++ gfortran make libblas-dev liblapack-dev libpcre3-dev libarpack2-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev epstool libfftw3-dev transfig libfltk1.3-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libgl2ps-dev libglpk-dev libreadline-dev gnuplot-x11 libgraphicsmagick++1-dev libhdf5-serial-dev openjdk-8-jdk libsndfile1-dev llvm-dev lpr texinfo libgl1-mesa-dev libosmesa6-dev pstoedit portaudio19-dev libqhull-dev libqrupdate-dev libqscintilla2-dev libsuitesparse-dev texlive texlive-generic-recommended libxft-dev zlib1g-dev autoconf automake bison flex gperf gzip icoutils librsvg2-bin libtool perl rsync tar qtbase5-dev qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libqscintilla2-qt5-dev
or, for Debian 8 stable,
sudo apt-get install gcc g++ gfortran make libblas-dev liblapack-dev libpcre3-dev libarpack2-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev epstool libfftw3-dev transfig libfltk1.3-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libgl2ps-dev libglpk-dev libreadline-dev gnuplot libgraphicsmagick++1-dev libhdf5-serial-dev openjdk-7-jdk libsndfile1-dev llvm-dev lpr texinfo libgl1-mesa-dev libosmesa6-dev pstoedit portaudio19-dev libqhull-dev libqrupdate-dev libqscintilla2-dev libqt4-dev libqtcore4 libqtwebkit4 libqt4-network libqtgui4 libqt4-opengl-dev libsuitesparse-dev texlive libxft-dev zlib1g-dev autoconf automake bison flex gperf gzip icoutils librsvg2-bin libtool perl rsync tar
or, for Debian 9 stable,
sudo apt-get install gcc g++ gfortran make libblas-dev liblapack-dev libpcre3-dev libarpack2-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev epstool libfftw3-dev transfig libfltk1.3-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libgl2ps-dev libglpk-dev libreadline-dev gnuplot libgraphicsmagick++1-dev libhdf5-serial-dev openjdk-8-jdk libsndfile1-dev llvm-dev texinfo libgl1-mesa-dev libosmesa6-dev pstoedit portaudio19-dev libjack-jackd2-dev libqhull-dev libqrupdate-dev libqscintilla2-dev libqt4-dev libqtcore4 libqtwebkit4 libqt4-network libqtgui4 libqt4-opengl-dev libsuitesparse-dev texlive libxft-dev zlib1g-dev autoconf automake bison flex gperf gzip icoutils librsvg2-bin libtool perl rsync tar


{{Warning|<ul><li>The Debian repositoriy 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.</li>
{{Warning|<ul><li>The Debian repositoriy 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.</li>
<li>The GraphicsMagick++ library (libgraphicsmagick++1-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 16 or 32 before building Octave.</li></ul>}}
<li>The GraphicsMagick++ library (libgraphicsmagick++1-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 16 or 32 before building Octave.</li>
<li>For debian9 using openjdk-9-jdk (even providing  {{Codeline|JAVA_HOME}}) could *not* be used for the java interface! Use openjdk-8-jdk instead.</li>
<li>When configure decides to use QT5 instead of QT4, make might fail because lrelease is missing (see [https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50580 bug 50580]).  It can be fixed by installing {{Codeline|qttools5-dev-tools}}</li>
</ul>}}
 
=== Obtaining the Source ===
 
The source code for Octave releases can be obtained as a tarball from [https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/ https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/].  The source code for development versions is available by cloning the [[Mercurial|mercurial repository]].
 
=== Bootstrap ===
 
If you are building development versions instead of an actual Octave release, you will need to run the {{Codeline|./bootstrap}} script.


=== Configuration ===
=== Configuration ===
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==== 64 bit ====
==== 64 bit ====


To get [https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Compiling-Octave-with-64_002dbit-Indexing.html 64-bit] requires all linked libraries to support 64-bit variables. You can omit most of these except BLAS which gives a fatal error. This is remedied by compiling [http://www.openblas.net/ OpenBLAS] with edits to its Makefile.rule so that BINARY=64 INTERFACE64=1.
To get [https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Compiling-Octave-with-64_002dbit-Indexing.html 64-bit] indexing requires all linked libraries to support 64-bit variables. You can omit most of these except BLAS which gives a fatal error. This is remedied by compiling [http://www.openblas.net/ OpenBLAS] with edits to its Makefile.rule so that BINARY=64 INTERFACE64=1.


<code>./configure LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/OpenBLAS/lib CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/OpenBLAS/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/OpenBLAS/lib --enable-64</code>
<code>./configure LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/OpenBLAS/lib CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/OpenBLAS/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/OpenBLAS/lib --enable-64</code>
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==== Java ====
==== Java ====


Autodetection for java should work well in Debian systems. It can still be
Autodetection for java should work well on Debian-based systems. A specific Java version can be specified by passing {{codeline|JAVA_HOME}} to configure, for example
specified by defining {{codeline|JAVA_HOME}}


    ./configure JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64"
  ./configure JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64


==== HDF5 ====
==== HDF5 ====


With current Debian versions you may get the following when building from source:
On current versions of Debian and Ubuntu, you may get the following warning when building an older version of Octave from source:


  HDF5 library not found.  Octave will not be able to save or load HDF5 data files.
  HDF5 library not found.  Octave will not be able to save or load HDF5 data files.


The problem is that there are multiple versions of the hdf5 package.  Octave was written with the serial version in mind but it is likely to work with the others (OpenMPI and Mpich). Due to the naming scheme done in Debian, it is required to specify the location of the libraries.  See bug {{bug|38928}} for details (starting with comment #19) but basically, use the following when running configure:
The problem is that there are multiple versions of the hdf5 package.  Octave was written with the serial version in mind but it is likely to work with the others (OpenMPI and Mpich). Due to the naming scheme done in Debian, it may be required to specify the location of the libraries.  See bug {{bug|38928}} for details (starting with comment #19) but basically, use the following when running configure:


   ./configure --with-hdf5-includedir=/usr/include/hdf5/serial --with-hdf5-libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial
   ./configure --with-hdf5-includedir=/usr/include/hdf5/serial --with-hdf5-libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial
On older versions of Debian and Ubuntu, where only one flavor of the HDF5 library could be installed at a time, you may need to build Octave against one of the MPI-enabled flavors. On these older systems, configuring Octave like this may work:
  ./configure CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/mpi -DMPICH_SKIP_MPICXX -DOMPI_SKIP_MPICXX"


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[[Category:Installation]]
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[[Category:GNU/Linux]]

Revision as of 16:14, 20 April 2019

For Debian, and Debian-based distributions such as Ubuntu, specific solutions.

Pre-compiled binaries

Binary packages for Octave and many Octave-Forge packages are provided by all versions of Debian and Ubuntu. These are the most well-tested binaries available and should work best for most users.

sudo apt-get install octave

Aside the octave package that installs GNU Octave, other pieces of it are split over multiple packages. These are octave-doc, octave-info, and octave-htmldoc for the documentation; liboctave-dev for the octave development header files and mkoctfile (required to install Octave Forge packages); and octave-dbg for the debugging symbols.

For Debian stable users, there may also be newer packages available in backports, so don't forget to check there.

Octave packages

Many Octave packages are also distributed by your Linux distribution. These are tested to work the best with your Octave version. For example:

sudo apt-get install octave-control octave-image octave-io octave-optim octave-signal octave-statistics

Octave's Personal Package Archive (PPA) for Ubuntu

For some Ubuntu releases the Octave packages are too old (Ubuntu 12.04 only has Octave version 3.2). The GNU Octave Team on Launchpad maintains a PPA providing more up to date packages of Octave for all versions of Ubuntu. These are backported from Debian unstable (the Ubuntu Octave Team needs help testing and preparing the packages so if you can help with this, contact Mike Miller). To set up your system to install these packages:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:octave/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install octave

Linuxbrew

See Octave for GNU/Linux#Linuxbrew

Compiling from source

The only tricky part is to install the dependencies. Once that is solved, installing from source should be as easy as ./configure && make && make install. See the manual for configure options and below for some common examples.

Install dependencies

Note that different Debian and Ubuntu versions may have slightly different package names but their differences should be pretty small, mostly limited to version numbers.

The easy way (but likely incorrect)

This approach is only suitable if you are building from source the same version that your Linux distribution already has packaged.

The easy way to install most of the necessary dependencies is to 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 unnecessary packages related to the building of a Debian package;
  • may miss some new dependencies;
  • may install packages that are no longer octave dependencies.

The even easier way (but experimental)

The MXE-octave package provides a way to compile Octave for different platforms. Dependencies and certain flags are handled automatically.

The right way

The right way is to select and install all the dependencies as listed in the INSTALL.OCTAVE file (if it is not in your source tree build it doing make INSTALL.OCTAVE). The following are their package names in Debian repositories (they will have their own dependencies which your package manager will solve automatically). If you are building development versions, you'll require some more packages as listed on etc/HACKING.md and INSTALL. Many of them will already be installed on your system. Install the dependencies by typing

sudo apt-get install

followed by the package names of the table below.

Dependency Debian 8 Jessie (stable) Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus (LTS)
Required build tools
C compiler gcc gcc
C++ compiler g++ g++
Fortran compiler gfortran gfortran
GNU make make make
Required external packages
BLAS libblas-dev libblas-dev
LAPACK liblapack-dev liblapack-dev
PCRE libpcre3-dev libpcre3-dev
Strongly recommended. Check the Octave manual for more information.
ARPACK libarpack2-dev libarpack2-dev
cURL libcurl4-gnutls-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev
epstool epstool epstool
FFTW3 libfftw3-dev libfftw3-dev
fig2dev transfig transfig
FLTK libfltk1.3-dev libfltk1.3-dev
fontconfig libfontconfig1-dev libfontconfig1-dev
FreeType libfreetype6-dev libfreetype6-dev
gl2ps libgl2ps-dev libgl2ps-dev
GLPK libglpk-dev libglpk-dev
GNU Readline libreadline-dev libreadline-dev
gnuplot gnuplot gnuplot-x11
GraphicsMagick++ libgraphicsmagick++1-dev libgraphicsmagick++1-dev
HDF5 libhdf5-serial-dev libhdf5-serial-dev
Java JDK openjdk-7-jdk openjdk-8-jdk
libsndfile libsndfile1-dev libsndfile1-dev
LLVM llvm-dev llvm-dev
lpr lpr lpr
makeinfo texinfo texinfo
OpenGL libgl1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dev
OSMesa libosmesa6-dev libosmesa6-dev
pstoedit pstoedit pstoedit
PortAudio portaudio19-dev portaudio19-dev
Qhull libqhull-dev libqhull-dev
QRUPDATE libqrupdate-dev libqrupdate-dev
QScintilla libqscintilla2-dev libqscintilla2-dev
Qt

libqt4-dev libqtcore4 libqtwebkit4 libqt4-network libqtgui4 libqt4-opengl-dev

libqt4-dev libqtcore4 libqtwebkit4 libqt4-network libqtgui4 libqt4-opengl-dev

SuiteSparse libsuitesparse-dev libsuitesparse-dev
Texlive texlive texlive
Xft libxft-dev libxft-dev
zlib zlib1g-dev zlib1g-dev
Required to build from development sources
Autoconf autoconf autoconf
Automake automake automake
Bison bison bison
Flex flex flex
gperf gperf gperf
gzip gzip gzip
icoutils icoutils icoutils
rsvg-convert librsvg2-bin librsvg2-bin
libtool libtool libtool
perl perl perl
rsync rsync rsync
tar tar tar

To install all of these on Ubuntu 16.04, type

sudo apt-get install gcc g++ gfortran make libblas-dev liblapack-dev libpcre3-dev libarpack2-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev epstool libfftw3-dev transfig libfltk1.3-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libgl2ps-dev libglpk-dev libreadline-dev gnuplot-x11 libgraphicsmagick++1-dev libhdf5-serial-dev openjdk-8-jdk libsndfile1-dev llvm-dev lpr texinfo libgl1-mesa-dev libosmesa6-dev pstoedit portaudio19-dev libqhull-dev libqrupdate-dev libqscintilla2-dev libqt4-dev libqtcore4 libqtwebkit4 libqt4-network libqtgui4 libqt4-opengl-dev libsuitesparse-dev texlive libxft-dev zlib1g-dev autoconf automake bison flex gperf gzip icoutils librsvg2-bin libtool perl rsync tar


To install all of these on Ubuntu 18.10, type (Needs more testing)

sudo apt-get install gcc g++ gfortran make libblas-dev liblapack-dev libpcre3-dev libarpack2-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev epstool libfftw3-dev transfig libfltk1.3-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libgl2ps-dev libglpk-dev libreadline-dev gnuplot-x11 libgraphicsmagick++1-dev libhdf5-serial-dev openjdk-8-jdk libsndfile1-dev llvm-dev lpr texinfo libgl1-mesa-dev libosmesa6-dev pstoedit portaudio19-dev libqhull-dev libqrupdate-dev libqscintilla2-dev libsuitesparse-dev texlive texlive-generic-recommended libxft-dev zlib1g-dev autoconf automake bison flex gperf gzip icoutils librsvg2-bin libtool perl rsync tar qtbase5-dev qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libqscintilla2-qt5-dev

or, for Debian 8 stable,

sudo apt-get install gcc g++ gfortran make libblas-dev liblapack-dev libpcre3-dev libarpack2-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev epstool libfftw3-dev transfig libfltk1.3-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libgl2ps-dev libglpk-dev libreadline-dev gnuplot libgraphicsmagick++1-dev libhdf5-serial-dev openjdk-7-jdk libsndfile1-dev llvm-dev lpr texinfo libgl1-mesa-dev libosmesa6-dev pstoedit portaudio19-dev libqhull-dev libqrupdate-dev libqscintilla2-dev libqt4-dev libqtcore4 libqtwebkit4 libqt4-network libqtgui4 libqt4-opengl-dev libsuitesparse-dev texlive libxft-dev zlib1g-dev autoconf automake bison flex gperf gzip icoutils librsvg2-bin libtool perl rsync tar

or, for Debian 9 stable,

sudo apt-get install gcc g++ gfortran make libblas-dev liblapack-dev libpcre3-dev libarpack2-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev epstool libfftw3-dev transfig libfltk1.3-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libgl2ps-dev libglpk-dev libreadline-dev gnuplot libgraphicsmagick++1-dev libhdf5-serial-dev openjdk-8-jdk libsndfile1-dev llvm-dev texinfo libgl1-mesa-dev libosmesa6-dev pstoedit portaudio19-dev libjack-jackd2-dev libqhull-dev libqrupdate-dev libqscintilla2-dev libqt4-dev libqtcore4 libqtwebkit4 libqt4-network libqtgui4 libqt4-opengl-dev libsuitesparse-dev texlive libxft-dev zlib1g-dev autoconf automake bison flex gperf gzip icoutils librsvg2-bin libtool perl rsync tar
Warning icon.svg
  • The Debian repositoriy has several libraries for dealing with HDF data files. The recommended is libhdf5-serial-dev. However, the msh package requires gmsh which is incompatible with it.
  • The GraphicsMagick++ library (libgraphicsmagick++1-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 16 or 32 before building Octave.
  • For debian9 using openjdk-9-jdk (even providing JAVA_HOME) could *not* be used for the java interface! Use openjdk-8-jdk instead.
  • When configure decides to use QT5 instead of QT4, make might fail because lrelease is missing (see bug 50580). It can be fixed by installing qttools5-dev-tools

Obtaining the Source

The source code for Octave releases can be obtained as a tarball from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/. The source code for development versions is available by cloning the mercurial repository.

Bootstrap

If you are building development versions instead of an actual Octave release, you will need to run the ./bootstrap script.

Configuration

As mentioned above, Octave can be compiled with the default settings using ./configure && make && make install. You can also tweak the setup using configure options. Some examples are given below for a Linux system.

64 bit

To get 64-bit indexing requires all linked libraries to support 64-bit variables. You can omit most of these except BLAS which gives a fatal error. This is remedied by compiling OpenBLAS with edits to its Makefile.rule so that BINARY=64 INTERFACE64=1.

./configure LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/OpenBLAS/lib CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/OpenBLAS/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/OpenBLAS/lib --enable-64

Java

Autodetection for java should work well on Debian-based systems. A specific Java version can be specified by passing JAVA_HOME to configure, for example

 ./configure JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64

HDF5

On current versions of Debian and Ubuntu, you may get the following warning when building an older version of Octave from source:

HDF5 library not found.  Octave will not be able to save or load HDF5 data files.

The problem is that there are multiple versions of the hdf5 package. Octave was written with the serial version in mind but it is likely to work with the others (OpenMPI and Mpich). Due to the naming scheme done in Debian, it may be required to specify the location of the libraries. See bug #38928 for details (starting with comment #19) but basically, use the following when running configure:

 ./configure --with-hdf5-includedir=/usr/include/hdf5/serial --with-hdf5-libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial

On older versions of Debian and Ubuntu, where only one flavor of the HDF5 library could be installed at a time, you may need to build Octave against one of the MPI-enabled flavors. On these older systems, configuring Octave like this may work:

 ./configure CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/mpi -DMPICH_SKIP_MPICXX -DOMPI_SKIP_MPICXX"