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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.
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.


The [https://launchpad.net/~octave GNU Octave Team] on Launchpad maintains a PPA providing binary packages of the latest stable and unstable versions of Octave for all versions of Ubuntu. To set up your system to install these packages
Octave is often split over multiple packages to cover the different parts of it. Aside the {{codeline|octave}} package that installs GNU Octave, there is also {{codeline|octave-doc}}, {{codeline|octave-info}}, and {{codeline|octave-htmldoc}} for the documentation, {{codeline|liboctave-dev}} for the octave development library (required to install most packages), and {{codeline|octave-dbg}} for the debugging symbols.
 
== Octave's PPA ==
 
However, for some Ubuntu releases the octave package is too old.  The [https://launchpad.net/~octave GNU Octave Team] on Launchpad maintains a PPA providing binary packages of the latest stable and unstable versions of Octave for all versions of Ubuntu. To set up your system to install these packages


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