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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) ==
    $ sudo aptitude install octave<version> octave<version>-doc


: ''Main article: [[Octave for Debian systems]]''
where {{Codeline|<version>}} must be substituted by the appropriate string.


apt install octave
The Octave-Forge packages are spread over many Debian packages. All Octave-Forge packages will probably be found with the command:
apt install liboctave-dev  # development files


== Fedora ==
    $ aptitude search ?description\(octave-forge\)


: ''Main article: [[Octave for Red Hat Linux systems]]''
=Ubuntu=
For building from source, see the [[Debian]] instructions.


dnf install octave
dnf install octave-devel  # development files


== Gentoo ==
=== Unofficial binaries ===


emerge --ask sci-mathematics/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.


== openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise ==
The related packages are:
*octave
*octave-devel
*octave-forge


: ''Main article: [[Octave for openSUSE]]''
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


zypper install octave
    # yum install octave-forge
zypper install octave-devel  # development files


== Red Hat Enterprise/CentOS ==
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


: ''Main article: [[Octave for Red Hat Linux systems]]''
    # yum install octave-forge atlas


yum install epel-release
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).
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.
=Gentoo=
Octave is available through Gentoo's package management system, Portage. To install Octave:


== Slackware ==
    # emerge sync
    # emerge octave
    # emerge octave-forge (optional)


: ''Main article: [[Octave for Slackware]]''
=Red Hat Enterprise=


= Distribution independent =
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.


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.
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,


== Anaconda ==
    # wget <nowiki>http://url/to/latest/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm</nowiki>
    # yum localinstall epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm


* More info: https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/octave
Once the EPEL repository has been enabled, you can follow the rest of the [[#Fedora|instructions for Fedora]] to install Octave using yum.


  conda create --name octave
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.
  conda activate octave
  conda install -c conda-forge octave


== Docker / Podman / Singularity ==
=RedHat=


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


docker pull docker.io/gnuoctave/octave:{{Release}}
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).
podman pull docker.io/gnuoctave/octave:{{Release}}


singularity pull docker://gnuoctave/octave:{{Release}}
=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


=== mtmiller's version ===
[http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/ OBS science]


* More info: https://hub.docker.com/r/mtmiller/octave
For example for openSUSE 12.2 you would do
* Development: https://gitlab.com/mtmiller/docker-octave


docker pull docker.io/mtmiller/octave
    # zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/openSUSE_12.2/ science
    # zypper refresh
    # zypper install octave octave-devel


== Flatpak ==
for other versions change the version number in the first command accordingly.


* More info: https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.octave.Octave
2012-08-21: arpack-ng and SuiteSparse 4.0 bindings which were broken before are again functional, if you have a previous version of the rpm's installed consider to update them.  
* Development: https://github.com/flathub/org.octave.Octave


flatpak install flathub org.octave.Octave
[[Category:GNULinux]]


== Guix ==
=Arch Linux=


* More info: https://guix.gnu.org/en/packages/octave-6.2.0/
Updated Octave's version is in the extra repository. It can be installed by typing:


guix install octave
    # pacman -S octave


== Homebrew on Linux ==
[[Category:GNULinux]]
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"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.
----
 
* More info: https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-on-Linux
* Development: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/octave
 
brew install octave
 
== MXE ==
 
* More info: [[MXE]]
* Development: https://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave
 
== Snap ==
 
* More info: https://snapcraft.io/octave
* Development: https://github.com/octave-snap/octave-snap
 
snap install octave
 
If you want to use a nightly snapshot build of the development branch of Octave, install from the ''edge'' channel
 
snap install --edge octave
 
== Spack ==
 
* More info: https://spack.readthedocs.io/
* Development: https://github.com/spack/spack/blob/develop/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/octave/package.py
 
spack install octave
 
= Building from source =
 
: ''Main article: [[Building]]''
 
== See also ==
 
* [[Octave for other Unix systems]]
 
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