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Re: octave on linux Mint


From: Juan Pablo Carbajal
Subject: Re: octave on linux Mint
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:05:59 +0200

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:56 PM, pantxo diribarne
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> 2012/7/20 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>
>>
>> On 20 July 2012 08:09, pantxo diribarne <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>> > 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 don't know much about Linux Mint, but it's my understanding that the
>> Ubuntu repositories should be usable on Mint. If so, try to use these
>> Ubuntu PPAs for Octave before you attempt to build it from source:
>>
>>
>> http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Octave_for_GNU_Linux:_Binary_Octave_packages_for_GNU_Linux#Unofficial_binaries
>>
>> - Jordi G. H.
>
>
> Thank you all for your answers.
>
> I already tried the unofficial binary for ubuntu (cited by Jordi) and I can
> confirm it works on Mint-Cinamon but it's 3.6.1 and it does not feature all
> the OF packages I need.
>
> Now I have two alternatives:
>  -  compile from sources and install packages using pkg (even though my
> experience on mac os x tells me not to).
> -  switch to another distribution.
>
> Any advice?
>
> Pantxo
>
>
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Hi,
You can install the packages you need by running directly from the octave prompt
> pkg -forge install mypack1 mypack2 ...



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M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
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University of Zürich
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