Re: Latest Octave for Ubuntu?

[Salva Ardid]

I think I found a weird bug in kmail (my email client) and the text I added to 
the bottom of my reply went to the limb (the purpose of this sentence is to 
avoid this happening again; please see my response below) 

  >   > Good morning,
  >   > 
  >   > When I try, "apt-get install octave" on Ubuntu 18.04 I get an "old"
  >   > version. I would like to install the latest (or at least close). I can't
  >   > find am Ubuntu repo for this - does anyone know of one?
  >   > 
  >   > Thanks!
  >   > 
  >   > Jeff
  >   
  >   Compile from source code might be an option, most of the time I however
  >   found there are not big difference between versions though cumulative
  >   improvements over the years make a difference.
  
Give flatpak's package a try, it works great for me.