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For RedHat-based distributions like RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, Scientific Linux, ...
For RedHat-based distributions like RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, Scientific Linux ...


=== Generic RedHat ===
=== Dependencies ===
 
Tested Fedora 33, but not completely.
 
  dnf install libtool make automake autoconf gcc gcc-devel \
  g++ g++-devel gcc-fortran gawk gperf less ncurses


Tested Fedora 20, but not completely.
Tested Fedora 20, but not completely.
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   lapack pcre-devel readline-devel readline fftw-devel glpk-devel suitesparse suitesparse-devel gnuplot libcurl-devel zlib-devel \
   lapack pcre-devel readline-devel readline fftw-devel glpk-devel suitesparse suitesparse-devel gnuplot libcurl-devel zlib-devel \
   flex texlive gperf fltk-devel qhull-devel hdf5-devel gl2ps-devel qrupdate-devel arpack-devel qscintilla-devel llvm-devel qt-devel \
   flex texlive gperf fltk-devel qhull-devel hdf5-devel gl2ps-devel qrupdate-devel arpack-devel qscintilla-devel llvm-devel qt-devel \
   bison ghostscript-devel librsvg2-tools icoutils texlive-metapost
   bison-devel ghostscript-devel
 
=== CentOS ===
 
Enable use of [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL)] AND THEN install octave dependencies development packages:
 
    yum -y install yum-utils
    yum-builddep -y octave
    yum -y install qt-devel mercurial gcc-c++ lapack-devel libtool
    yum -y install epstool transfig pstoedit qscintilla-devel
 
The arpack-devel package distributed with CentOS 7 (arpack-devel-3.1.3-2.el7.x86_64) seems a bit old, as routine "seupdate" seems not recognized during
the "configure" step. This can be solved by installing arpack from github:
    git clone git@github.com:opencollab/arpack-ng.git
    cd arpack-ng
    ./bootstrap
    ./configure --prefix="some local prefix"
    make; make install
 
Current release as of Aug. 20th 2018 seems to compile OK with CentOS blas-devel
 
===== Prepare installation of Octave =====
 
The remaining steps do not need to be done as root, except for
possibly the final installation step.  I recommend you create an
installation directory like /usr/local/octave/VERSION so that it is
easy to uninstall a given version simply by removing a directory tree.
Then to use the installed version, put /usr/local/octave/VERSION/bin
in your PATH.  If you create the /usr/local/octave/VERSION directory
with appropriate permissions, it is not necessary to be root to
install Octave.  For example,
 
    mkdir -p /usr/local/octave/dev
    chown jwe.jwe /usr/local/octave/dev
 
create src and build directories:
 
    mkdir src build
 
===== Compiling Octave from source =====
 
Check out a copy of the octave sources in the src directory
 
    cd src
    hg clone http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave
 
* bootstrap the build system
 
    cd octave
    ./bootstrap
 
* build Octave in the build directory.  choose whatever prefix is appropriate for your system.  the -jN option builds in parallel
 
    cd ../../build
    ../src/octave/configure --prefix=/usr/local/octave/dev
    make -j6 all
 
* Run the test suite
 
    make check
 
* If everything looks OK (a few failures are probably normal for the development version) install it
 
    make install
 
==== Installing using snap ====
 
https://snapcraft.io/install/octave/centos - Easiest way to install.
 
* Enable snapd. Snap is available for CentOS 7.6+, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6+, from the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository. The EPEL repository can be added to your system with the following command:
 
    sudo yum install epel-release
 
* Snap can now be installed as follows:
 
    sudo yum install snapd
 
* Once installed, the systemd unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled:
 
    sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
 
* To enable classic snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between /var/lib/snapd/snap and /snap:
 
    sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
 
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
 
* Install octave. To install octave, simply use the following command:
 
    sudo snap install octave
 
===Redhat Enterprise Linux workstation 6.4-2.6.32-358===
Use the rpms to install
octave version: 3.4.3
 
yum install gnuplot
 
* Download and install lcms
 
rpm -ivh lcms2-2.8-6.el6.x86_64.rpm
 
* Download and install libwmf
 
rpm -ivh libwmf-lite-0.2.8.4-25.el6_7.x86_64.rpm
 
* Download GraphicsMagick and GraphicsMagick-c++ and install them
 
rpm -ivh GraphicsMagick-1.3.32-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh GraphicsMagick-c++-1.3.32-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
 
*Install suitesparse
 
yum install suitesparse
 
* Install fftw3
 
yum install fftw
 
yum install glpk
 
* Download and install fltk
 
rpm -ivh fltk-1.1.10-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
 
* Download and install hdf5
 
rpm -ivh hdf5-1.8.5.patch1-10.el6.x86_64.rpm
 
* Download and install qhull
 
rpm -ivh qhull-2003.1-14.el6.x86_64.rpm
 
* Install blas
 
yum install blas
 
* Download and install qrupdate
 
rpm -ivh qrupdate-1.1.2-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
 
* Install texinfo
 
yum install texinfo
 
* Lastly, install octave
 
rpm -ivh octave-3.4.3-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
 
 
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