Octave

Download Source:	ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/octave-3.2.2.tar.bz2

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Introduction to Octave

GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It is a command line interface and solves linear and nonlinear problems numerically. Octave can be used to perform other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab.

Project Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/

Dependencies

Optional

• FFTW
• GNUplot
• HDF5
• ATLAS
• LAPACK
• gperf
• ImageMagick

Configuration Information

The following are some options that you may want to pass to the configure script:

--with-f77: Use f77 to compile Fortran subroutines.

--without-hdf5: Don't use HDF5 files.

--without-fftw: Use included fftpack instead of installed fftw.

--with-blas=<lib>: Use the ATLAS library found at <lib>.

--with-lapack=<lib>: Use the LAPACK library found at <lib>.

--enable-shared: Enables building the shared library. This requires shared ATLAS and LAPACK libraries if you're using them as well.

Non-Multilib

Compile the Octave package:

./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib --enable-static \
--enable-shared &&
make

Install Octave:

make install

Install the Octave documentation. The files in the doc/refcard directory are two-page Octave command reference cards. The others are full reference manuals.

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/octave-3.2.2/ &&
cp -v doc/refcard/*.{ps,pdf} /usr/share/doc/octave-3.2.2/ &&
cp -v doc/interpreter/*.{ps,pdf} /usr/share/doc/octave-3.2.2/ &&
cp -v doc/liboctave/*.{ps,pdf} /usr/share/doc/octave-3.2.2/

Multilib

32Bit

Compile the Octave package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD32}" ./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
--enable-static --enable-shared &&
make

Install Octave:

make install &&
mv -v /usr/bin/octave{,-32}

N32

Compile the Octave package:

CC="gcc ${BUILDN32}" ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib32 \
--libexecdir=/usr/lib32 --enable-static --enable-shared &&
make

Install Octave:

make install &&
mv -v /usr/bin/octave{,-n32}

64Bit

Compile the Octave package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 \
--libexecdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-static --enable-shared &&
make

Install Octave:

make install &&
mv -v /usr/bin/octave{,-64} &&
ln -sfv multiarch_wrapper /usr/bin/octave

Install the Octave documentation. The files in the doc/refcard directory are two-page Octave command reference cards. The others are full reference manuals.

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/octave-3.2.2/ &&
cp -v doc/refcard/*.{ps,pdf} /usr/share/doc/octave-3.2.2/ &&
cp -v doc/interpreter/*.{ps,pdf} /usr/share/doc/octave-3.2.2/ &&
cp -v doc/liboctave/*.{ps,pdf} /usr/share/doc/octave-3.2.2/

Contents

Installed Directories:	/usr/lib/octave, /usr/lib/octave/3.2.2, /usr/lib/octave/3.2.2/oct, /usr/lib/octave/3.2.2/oct/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, /usr/lib/octave/3.2.2/exec, /usr/lib/octave/3.2.2/exec/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, /usr/lib/octave/site, /usr/lib/octave/site/exec, /usr/lib/octave/site/exec/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, /usr/lib/octave/3.2.2/site, /usr/lib/octave/3.2.2/site/exec, /usr/lib/octave/3.2.2/site/exec/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, /usr/lib/octave/3.2.2/site/oct, /usr/lib/octave/3.2.2/site/oct/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, /usr/lib/octave/site/oct, /usr/lib/octave/site/oct/api-v13, /usr/lib/octave/site/oct/api-v13/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, /usr/lib/octave/site/oct/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, /tmp/t2d7002, /tmp/t2d7002/utils, /tmp/t2d7002/src, /tmp/t2d7002/xtr, /tmp/t2d7002/rcd, /tmp/t2d7002/bak
Installed Programs:	octave-bug-3.2.2, octave-config-3.2.2, mkoctfile-3.2.2, octave-3.2.2
Installed Libraries:	libcruft.a, libcruft.so, liboctave.a, liboctave.so, liboctinterp.a, liboctinterp.so
Symlinks:	octave-bug, octave-config, mkoctfile, octave

Short Description

octave-bug:	Creates a bug report and mails it to the bug-octave mailing list.
octave-config	Reports some configuration values for Octave.
Octave	The binary of interest.