How to Install Octave
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Revision as of 15:43, 29 October 2009
GNU Octave is a numerically oriented high level mathematical programming language. It is useful for science, engineering and maths, and it is mostly compatible with matlab. [1]
Installation
Please Note: Currently this is a rough outline of the steps to be taken. Steps other than these listed commands are required (eg: unpacking).
The following is a list of the steps I followed to install Octave on the Maemo 5 SDK:
Download and Unpack
Gnuplot: http://www.gnuplot.info/ (I used version 4.2.6)
f2c/libf2c: https://computation.llnl.gov/casc/Overture/henshaw/install/node8.html This is where I got my version
(The f2c homepage is http://www.netlib.org/f2c/.)
Fort77: https://computation.llnl.gov/casc/Overture/henshaw/install/node8.html This is where I got my version.
(The fort77 homepage might be here http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/devel/lang/fortran/.)
Octave: http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ (I used the latest stable version (3.2.3).)
Install
- Compile and Install Gnuplot
./configure make fakeroot make install
- Compile and Install f2c and libf2c
cd src/ make fakeroot make install cd ../libf2c make cp f2c.h /usr/include/ cp libf2c.a /usr/lib/
- Install fort77 script
cp fort77 /usr/bin
- Compile and Install GNU Octave
./configure F77=fort77 CXXFLAGS=-pthread FLIBS=-lf2c make fakeroot make install
The main obstacles were installing f2c, libf2c and fort77 and finding the necessary configure options to compile and install octave.
The information used for installation can be found here:
Using gfortran or installing f2c and fort77
f2c / f77 Installation Instructions for Linux
References
[1]. Octave, http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/, Acessed 20/10/2009.