Re: Octave from CDROM

[Michael Goffioul]

On 9/12/07, Quentin Spencer <address@hidden> wrote:
> I was interested in doing something similar: install octave to a network
> drive so anyone on the network can run from the same executable without
> installing anything on their machine. It turns out to be not very
> difficult. Use the 2.9.13 Windows installer from octave.sf.net to
> install to your PC. You can then copy the entire octave tree out of the
> C:\Program Files\ directory to some other location. You should also copy
> the shortcut from your start menu to somewhere in the other location,
> but you will need to modify its properties to point to the new location
> instead of C:\Program Files. You should then be able to start octave
> running from the new location by clicking on the new shortcut. Running
> from the network makes startup very slow, so I imagine this may be the
> case with a CD-ROM as well.

Indeed, the Win32 octave version is relocatable. So you can copy the
entire install dir to another location, it should still work. The only thing
I'm not really sure is about the octave-forge packages. I think the
package manager uses absolute path; in this case, octave-forge
packages might not work.

Michael.