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: ''Main article: [[Octave for Debian systems]]''

: ''Main article: [[Octave for Debian systems]]''

Simply install Octave from your distribution repository:

Simply install Octave from your distribution repository

  apt-get install octave

  apt install octave

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.

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.

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:

There are also Debian packages for each of the Octave Forge packages, named {{codeline|octave<pkgname>}}, for example {{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

  aptitude search ?description\(octave-forge\)

  apt search octave-forge

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