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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 === | ||
Tested Fedora 20, but not completely. | Tested Fedora 20, but not completely. | ||
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=== CentOS === | === CentOS === | ||
Enable use of [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL | 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 -y install yum-utils | ||
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yum -y install epstool transfig pstoedit qscintilla-devel | 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 | The remaining steps do not need to be done as root, except for | ||
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mkdir src build | mkdir src build | ||
===== | ===== Compiling Octave from source ===== | ||
Check out a copy of the octave sources in the src directory | |||
cd src | cd src | ||
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make install | make install | ||
[[Category:GNU/Linux]] | |||
[[Category:Installation]] | |||