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is via each distribution package installation system.
is via each distribution package installation system.


Here is a list of the latest Octave version available in some Linux distributions
More detailed instructions follow.


* Debian Mint 13, has Octave 3.6.2 as of June 28 2012
=Debian and Debian-based (such as Ubuntu)=
* 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


More detailed instructions follow.
: ''Main article: [[Octave for Debian systems]]''


=Debian-based (Ubuntu)=
Simply install Octave from your distribution repository:


Either use {{Codeline|aptitude}} or {{Codeline|apt-get}}:
apt-get install octave


    $ sudo aptitude install octave<version> octave<version>-doc
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.


where {{Codeline|<version>}} must be substituted by the appropriate string.
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:


The Octave-Forge packages are spread over many Debian packages. All Octave-Forge packages will probably be found with the command:
aptitude search ?description\(octave-forge\)


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


=Fedora=
: ''Main article: [[Octave for Red Hat Linux systems]]''
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.
 
The packages can be installed using the dnf command, they are:


The related packages are:
*octave
*octave
*octave-devel
*octave-devel
*octave-forge


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
{{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}} can be installed with the command:


     # yum install octave-forge
     # dnf install octave


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
=Gentoo=


    # yum install octave-forge atlas
Octave is available through Gentoo's package management system, Portage:


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).
    # 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.


=Gentoo=
Before installing any Octave-Forge package, in Octave command prompt you must type
Octave is available through Gentoo's package management system, Portage. To install Octave:
pkg -forge list
and then install your favourite packages. Typically, you have to start with
pkg install -forge general


    # emerge sync
=Red Hat Enterprise/CentOS=
    # emerge octave
    # emerge octave-forge (optional)


=Red Hat Enterprise=
: ''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.
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,
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,
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Once the EPEL repository has been enabled, you can follow the rest of the [[#Fedora|instructions for Fedora]] to install Octave using yum.
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.
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=
=SUSE Linux and openSUSE=


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


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).
Binary packages for Octave are provided by all versions of openSUSE. It can be installed by command:


=SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE=
zypper in octave
Octave 3.6.2 is included in the science repository with SLE 11 SP2 and openSUSE 11.4, 12.1, 12.2


[http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/ OBS science]
Latest stable version of Octave and Octave-Forge are available on Science repository. For details see [[openSUSE]] specific wiki page.


For example for openSUSE 12.2 you would do
=Arch Linux=


    # zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/openSUSE_12.2/ science
: ''Main article: [[Octave for Arch Linux]]''
    # zypper refresh
    # zypper install octave octave-devel
 
for other versions change the version number in the first command accordingly.
 
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.
 
[[Category:GNULinux]]
 
=Arch Linux=


Updated Octave's version is in the extra repository. It can be installed by typing:
Updated Octave's version is in the extra repository. It can be installed by typing:
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     # pacman -S octave
     # pacman -S octave


[[Category:GNULinux]]
[[Category:Installation]]
 
[[Category:GNU/Linux]]
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