Re: Installing Octave - your help will be much appeciated

[JasonNicholson]

I know that you are running windows by the file name that you have
downloaded.

1.  Make a folder called Octave at C:\ so that it is C:\Octave . Note that
best practice for Octave is to have to no space in the name of the install
directory.  That is why we use C:\Octave 
2.  Put the contents of the "Octave3.6.4_gcc4.6.2_20130408.7z" package in
C:\Octave.
3.  Download the  "Octave3.6.4_gcc4.6.2_pkgs_20130402.7z" file found in the
same place as the "Octave3.6.4_gcc4.6.2_20130408.7z".
4.  Extract "Octave3.6.4_gcc4.6.2_pkgs_20130402.7z" to C:\Octave.  Use
"Octave3.6.4_gcc4.6.2.lnk" to start octave.  
5. Run the command "pkg rebuild".  This rebuilds the package list.  Run the
"pkg list" to see all the packages you have installed.  Note that you cannot
use a package unless you "pkg load packageName" where packageName is the
name of the package found in "pkg list".
6.  Report any error or warnings back to this thread.

You should be ready to get started.

Other book links to book mark for documentation:
http://octave.sourceforge.net/docs.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/index.html#Top
http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/

Sincerely,
Jason Nicholson



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