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The recommended way for installing Octave and Octave-Forge packages on GNU/Linux systems | |||
is via each distribution package installation system. | |||
More detailed instructions follow. | |||
=Debian and Debian-based (such as Ubuntu)= | |||
: ''Main article: [[Octave for Debian systems]]'' | : ''Main article: [[Octave for Debian systems]]'' | ||
Simply install Octave from your distribution repository: | |||
apt-get install octave | |||
For old versions of Ubuntu that only supply old versions of Octave, consider using Octave's PPA. For more details, see the [[Debian]] specific instructions page. | |||
There are also Debian packages for each of the Octave-Forge packages, usually named {{codeline|octave<pkgname>}}, e.g, {{codeline|octave-image}} and {{codeline|octave-statistics}} for the image processing and statistics package respectively. A complete list of them can be found with the command: | |||
aptitude search ?description\(octave-forge\) | |||
= | =Fedora= | ||
: ''Main article: [[Octave for Red Hat Linux systems]]'' | : ''Main article: [[Octave for Red Hat Linux systems]]'' | ||
The packages can be installed using the yum command, they are: | |||
*octave | |||
*octave-devel | |||
*octave-forge | |||
{{Codeline|octave-forge}} is recommended to all users, as it provides many extra functions. {{Codeline|octave-devel}} contains the octave headers and {{Path|mkoctfile}} script and is really only needed by users who are developing code that is to be dynamically linked to octave. {{Codeline|octave}} and {{Codeline|octave-forge}} can be installed with the command: | |||
# yum install octave-forge | |||
By default, yum will most likely install blas and lapack as your matrix math libraries, but ATLAS is usually much faster. If you want to install atlas with octave, use the command | |||
# yum install octave-forge atlas | |||
Note that if you are using an i386-compatible processor the base atlas package is not optimized for newer hardware. If you have newer hardware, you can get even better performance with the atlas-3dnow (AMD K6 processors), atlas-sse (Pentium III or newer), or atlas-sse2 (Pentium 4 or newer). | |||
=Gentoo= | |||
Octave is available through Gentoo's package management system, Portage: | |||
# emerge --sync | |||
Add USE flag 'curl' into your <code>/etc/portage/package.use</code> file to enable remote Octave-Forge packages fetching | |||
sci-mathematics/octave curl | |||
and emerge Octave | |||
# emerge octave | |||
Since Octave ver. > 3.4.0 is able to fetch Octave-Forge packages from remote repository, packages ''octave-forge'' or ''g-octave'' are no more needed. | |||
Before installing any Octave-Forge package, in Octave command prompt you must type | |||
pkg -forge list | |||
and then install your favourite packages. Typically, you have to start with | |||
pkg install -forge general | |||
=Red Hat Enterprise/CentOS= | |||
: ''Main article: [[Octave for Red Hat Linux systems]]'' | |||
Octave is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux distributions through the [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL EPEL] repository. This section applies to CentOS, Scientific Linux, and other Red Hat Enterprise rebuild distributions as well. | |||
'''Method 1 - the quick way:''' | |||
yum install epel-release | |||
yum install octave | |||
'''Method 2 - if the above does not work:''' | |||
First, follow [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#How_can_I_use_these_extra_packages.3F these instructions] to set up your system to install packages from EPEL. For example, | |||
# wget <nowiki>http://url/to/latest/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm</nowiki> | |||
# yum localinstall epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm | |||
Once the EPEL repository has been enabled, you can follow the rest of the [[#Fedora|instructions for Fedora]] to install Octave using yum. | |||
Note that EPEL intentionally does not follow new releases as closely as other distributions. Consequently, the version of Octave provided by EPEL may be several months or years out of date. There are plans for the Octave maintainers to provide support and binary RPMs for enterprise GNU/Linux distributions; contact the [mailto:maintainers@octave.org maintainers mailing list] for more information. | |||
=SUSE Linux and openSUSE= | |||
: ''Main article: [[Octave for openSUSE]]'' | |||
Binary packages for Octave are provided by all versions of openSUSE. It can be installed by command: | |||
zypper in octave | |||
Latest stable version of Octave and Octave-Forge are available on Science repository. For details see [[openSUSE]] specific wiki page. | |||
= | =Arch Linux= | ||
: ''Main article: [[Octave for Arch Linux]]'' | |||
: ''Main article: [[ | |||
Updated Octave's version is in the extra repository. It can be installed by typing: | |||
# pacman -S octave | |||
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