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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:
Until 2018, the [https://launchpad.net/~octave GNU Octave Team] on Launchpad maintained a PPA providing more up to date packages of Octave. These are backported from Debian unstable and are still useful for older Ubuntu installations. To set up your system to install these packages, run:


  sudo apt-add-repository ppa:octave/stable
  sudo apt-add-repository ppa:octave/stable