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= Distributions =
The recommended way for installing Octave and Octave-Forge packages on GNU/Linux systems
is via each distribution package installation system.


The recommended way for installing Octave on GNU/Linux systems is via each distribution's package installation system. If this is for some reason not possible, or the available Octave version too old, consider using a [[#Distribution_independent|distribution independent]] approach described below or [[Building|build Octave from source]].
Here is a list of the latest Octave version available in some Linux distributions


== Arch Linux ==
* Debian Mint 13, has Octave 3.6.2 as of June 28 2012
* Zenwalk GNU Linux, Snapshot Version, has Octave 3.6.2 as of June 28 2012
* Fedora 17, has Octave 3.6.2 as of June 28 2012
* openSUSE 11.4 and 12.1, has Octave 3.6.2 (Science repository) as of June 28 2012


: ''Main article: [[Octave for Arch Linux]]''
More detailed instructions follow.


pacman -S octave
=Debian=


== Debian and Debian-based (such as Ubuntu) ==
For building from source, see the [[Debian]] instructions.


: ''Main article: [[Octave for Debian systems]]''
Determine what packages are currently available, using e.g.


apt install octave
    $ aptitude search octave
apt install liboctave-dev  # development files


== Fedora ==
As of 2008/05, the command above should list, amongst others:


: ''Main article: [[Octave for Red Hat Linux systems]]''
    octave3.0 - GNU Octave language for numerical computations (3.0 branch)
    octave3.0-doc - PDF documentation on the GNU Octave language (3.0 branch)
    octave3.0-emacsen - Emacs support for the GNU Octave language (3.0 branch)
    octave3.0-headers - header files for the GNU Octave language (3.0 branch)


dnf install octave
In July, 2012, with that time current stable (Squeeze), you get above mentioned in 3.2 version, so replace names of the packages appropriately in the following commands.
dnf install octave-devel  # development files


== Gentoo ==
Select your choice of packages, then install them, e.g. w/


emerge --ask sci-mathematics/octave
    # aptitude install octave3.0 octave3.0-doc octave3.0-emacsen


== openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise ==
==Notes:==


: ''Main article: [[Octave for openSUSE]]''
*For brevity, the numerous other Debian packages have been omitted in the above list.
*At a minimum, one should install one of the packages returned by the command:  


zypper install octave
    $ aptitude search ?provides\(^octave$\)
zypper install octave-devel  # development files


== Red Hat Enterprise/CentOS ==
*The OctaveForge packages are spread over many Debian packages. All OctaveForge packages will probably be found with the command:


: ''Main article: [[Octave for Red Hat Linux systems]]''
    $ aptitude search ?description\(octave-forge\)


yum install epel-release
==[http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?action=anchor&id=DebianDevelopmentSources#DebianDevelopmentSources Debian Development Sources]==
yum install octave
yum install octave-devel  # development files


If the above does not work, 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.
In order to build Octave from development sources, the first step is to follow the instructions given under the heading Development Sources of [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html Downloading Octave]. These commands require Mercurial, which can be installed with the command


== Slackware ==
    # aptitude install mercurial


: ''Main article: [[Octave for Slackware]]''
Building Octave from sources requires a number of programs and libraries. All of these are available as Debian packages and the list given on [Debian's source package page for Octave3.2] can be used for reference and installed by


= Distribution independent =
# aptitude build-dep octave3.2


Using a distribution independent approach is particularly useful if you have an older GNU/Linux distribution or if you do not have root access on your system. A common drawback of this approach is, that these solutions are running in some kind of sandbox. Thus limitations in the communication with the underlying system may exist.  For example, executing system binaries outside the sandbox might be impossible.
After this, it should be possible to follow the [[Build from source]] instructions.


== Anaconda ==
==Debian Versions==


* More info: https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/octave
Note that on Debian, multiple versions of Octave are provided concurrently and thus, Octave packages have names that include the version number, such as, for example: octave2.1-emacsen, octave3.0-emacsen, octave3.2-emacsen. This may change with Octave 3.4.


  conda create --name octave
References: [https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/2009-November/037394.html Upgrade Ubuntu Jaunty to Karmic (9.04 to 9.10) breaks self-compiled octave]([http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.octave.general/27056/focus=27080 Gmane copy]), [http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-octave-devel/2011-February/007699.html Octave 3.4]
  conda activate octave
  conda install -c conda-forge octave


== Docker / Podman / Singularity ==
=Ubuntu=
Note that on Ubuntu 10.04 and above, the default command to get packages is apt-get instead of aptitude (unless you have installed aptitude). Therefore the command to search the available packages is


* More info: https://hub.docker.com/r/gnuoctave/octave
    $ apt-cache search octave
* Development: https://github.com/gnu-octave/docker


docker pull docker.io/gnuoctave/octave:{{Release}}
The rest of the commands are the same but replacing aptitude with apt-get.
podman pull docker.io/gnuoctave/octave:{{Release}}


singularity pull docker://gnuoctave/octave:{{Release}}
To build newer releases of octave some extra packages may be needed. Next some extra compilation instructions are given.


=== mtmiller's version ===
If you plan to compile stuff in your Ubuntu system is not unwise to get the essential tools.


* More info: https://hub.docker.com/r/mtmiller/octave
    $ sudo apt-get install build-essential
* Development: https://gitlab.com/mtmiller/docker-octave


docker pull docker.io/mtmiller/octave
After these you can proceed to get the dependencies as explained before.


== Flatpak ==
    $ sudo apt-get build-dep octave3.2


* More info: https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.octave.Octave
After this, it should be possible to follow the [[Build from source]] instructions. However, you may notice that the <code>configure</code> script says that '''bison''' and '''libfontconfig-dev''' are still missing so you need to get them too.
* Development: https://github.com/flathub/org.octave.Octave


flatpak install flathub org.octave.Octave
    $ sudo apt-get install bison libfontconfig-dev


== Guix ==
After this you can compile (which takes some time, 1:30 hr in a 2.0 Ghz PC). Even though make check may work perfectly, you may still find a problem when trying to plot. This is due to missing x11 for gnuplot. Gnuplot will tell you <code>Terminal set to unknown</code>. To fix it get the full gnuplot package


* More info: https://guix.gnu.org/en/packages/octave-6.2.0/
    $ sudo apt-get install gnuplot


guix install octave
Make sure that gnuplot-x11 is in the list of installed packages.


== Homebrew on Linux ==
You may still find a problem when plotting: <code>Gtk-WARNIN **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap"</code> To fix this do
<div id="Linuxbrew"></div>


"Homebrew on Linux" was formerly a fork known as Linuxbrew. It is possible to install the current release of Octave or the development version and any needed dependencies within your home directory.
    $ sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-pixbuf


* More info: https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-on-Linux
=== Unofficial binaries ===
* Development: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/octave
Until Ubuntu packaging  is up and running you can get .deb packages for Ubuntu built with [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CheckInstall checkinstall] (note that these packages are not official)


brew install octave
'''Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10'''
* [http://ubuntuone.com/6iTsUm8xqX7rXDf3S6yfeM Octave 3.4.3 (32bits)].
* [http://ubuntuone.com/4sGNUuh9ykZdadEX0QPtY2 Octave 3.4.3 (64bits)].
* [http://ubuntuone.com/6WX6polYRNXeJuBqVsCZvi Octave 3.6.1 (32bits)].


== MXE ==
'''Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10'''
* [http://ubuntuone.com/6l35Gf3j8alWL7fGeYW388 Octave 3.4.3 (32bits)].
* [http://ubuntuone.com/50BTtQn3qO3eMB8kngAMaq Octave 3.6.1 (64bits)].


* More info: [[MXE]]
'''Ubuntu 12.04'''
* Development: https://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave
* [https://launchpad.net/~picaso/+archive/octave Octave 3.6.1 ppa (32 & 64 bits)].


== Snap ==
==References==


* More info: https://snapcraft.io/octave
*[http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Octave-3-4-3-in-Ubuntu-11-10-td3947501.html Octave 3.4.3 in Ubuntu 11.10].
* Development: https://github.com/octave-snap/octave-snap
*[http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Ubuntu-10-10-binaries-to-test-td3929887.html Ubuntu 10.10 binaries to test].
*[http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Ubuntu-11-10-binaries-td3947804.html Ubuntu 11.10 binaries]


snap install octave
=Fedora=
Early versions of Fedora included Octave in the core distribution. Since Fedora Core 3, Octave has been included in Fedora Extras (and is generally better maintained now in Extras than it was in Core). The packages can be installed using the yum command, which will automatically download and install the packages along with all of their dependencies.


If you want to use a nightly snapshot build of the development branch of Octave, install from the ''edge'' channel
The related packages are:
*octave
*octave-devel
*octave-forge


snap install --edge octave
octave-forge is recommended to all users, as it provides many extra functions. octave-devel contains the octave headers and mkoctfile script and is really only needed by users who are developing code that is to be dynamically linked to octave. octave and octave-forge can be installed with the command


== Spack ==
    # yum install octave-forge


* More info: https://spack.readthedocs.io/
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
* Development: https://github.com/spack/spack/blob/develop/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/octave/package.py


spack install octave
    # yum install octave-forge atlas


= Building from source =
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).


: ''Main article: [[Building]]''
=Gentoo=
Octave is available through Gentoo's package management system, Portage. To install Octave:  


== See also ==
    # emerge sync
    # emerge octave
    # emerge octave-forge (optional)


* [[Octave for other Unix systems]]
=Red Hat Enterprise=


[[Category:Installation]]
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.
[[Category:GNU/Linux]]
 
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.
 
=RedHat=
 
Octave is included with RedHat. If you are still using an old version of RedHat and want a newer version of octave, your best options are to consider updating your distribution to a recent Fedora release or compile octave from source.
 
Note that RH 7.x distributions (as well as RedHat Enterprise Linux 2.1) have included an old version of GCC (pre 3.x). It is known that GCC 2.96 (included in RH7.3) can compile octave (as of version 2.1.57), but the resulting binary will be bad. RedHat made available RPMs for GCC 3.1-5 through http://rhn.redhat.com (those RPMs may be available on other RPM repositories).
 
=SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE=
Octave 3.6.2 is included in the science repository with SLE 11 SP2 and openSUSE 11.4, 12.1, 12.2
 
=Arch Linux=
 
Updated Octave's version is in the extra repository. It can be installed by typing:
 
    # pacman -S octave
 
[[Category:GNULinux]]
 
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