Re: octave on linux Mint

[Carnë Draug]

On 20 July 2012 09:13, Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 2:09 PM, pantxo diribarne
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I installed linux Mint13 (Cinamon/Mate)  on a brand new workstation and want
>> to install latest Octave release. I saw that it was supposed to be available
>> on this platform
>> (http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Octave_for_GNU/Linux), but I
>> couldn't figure out the way to install it. I tried to install through the
>> application manager.
>>
>> Should I install Debian edition?
>> Should I add a particular ppa/repository to synaptic?
>>
>> Pantxo
>>
>> PS : I am new to linux but have basic knowledge on unix systems.
>
> Did you try compiling form source?
> It should be pretty straight forward in Mint, since they use the
> Ubuntu packages.
> Make sure you have build-essentials installed and then do
>  apt-get build-dep octave
>
> More info here
> http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Installation.html

Since Mint is also Debian based, you have more specific instructions
here http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Debian

This is for installing the dependencies. After this,

./configure
make
make check
make install

should suffice.

Carnë