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-For RedHat-based distributions like RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, Scientific Linux ...
+For RedHat-based distributions like RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, Scientific Linux, ...
-=== Unspecific RH ===
+=== Generic RedHat ===
 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 \
    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
+   bison ghostscript-devel librsvg2-tools icoutils texlive-metapost
 === CentOS ===
-Install base CentOS 6.4 system from minimal install disk.
+Enable use of [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL)] AND THEN install octave dependencies development packages:
-netinstall disk does not work from local iso disk image.
-==== Setup Network ====
-reboot and start the network because it is disabled by default:
-    ifup eth0
-    dhclient eth0
-edit `/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0` to enable on next boot. change `ONBOOT` to yes
-==== Install X11/DE ====
-update yum
-    yum update -y
-install desktop environment using:
-    yum -y groupinstall basic-desktop desktop-platform x11 fonts
-set system to boot to graphical interface by default
-    edit /etc/inittab and set default run level to 5
-    init 5
-==== Prepare system and dependencies ====
-finish setting up system and creating user
-configure sudo
-    su
-    edit /etc/sudoers file to enable sudo for wheel group
-    edit /etc/group and add new user to wheel group
-Remaining commands done with sudo
-enable use of Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL)
-    yum -y install wget
-    wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
-    rpm -Uvh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
-install octave dependencies development packages:
      yum -y install yum-utils
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      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
-===== prepare installation of octave =====
+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
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      mkdir src build
-===== get source code of octave and compile it=====
+===== Compiling Octave from source =====
-check out a copy of the octave sources in the src directory
+Check out a copy of the octave sources in the src directory
      cd src
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      make check
-* If everything looks OK (a few failures are probably normal for the
+* If everything looks OK (a few failures are probably normal for the development version) install it
-  development version) install it
      make install
+[[Category:GNU/Linux]]
+[[Category:Installation]]

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