Re: installing octave on ubuntu

[Fausto Arinos Barbuto]

On 12/29/2013 02:54 AM, Jason Snyder wrote:
> I have downloaded octave from the octave.gnu.org <http://octave.gnu.org> 
> website and have
> difficulty running it.I had some run suggest that I install is from ubuntu but 
> am not sure how
> to do that.I have ubuntu linux and was wondering what do I need to do to 
> install octave
> here.does anyone know of resources or can give me detailed instructions on what 
> to do?
>
>
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Hello,

Why don't you use Synaptic (Ubuntu's package manager) to do that?
You might as well use the following terminal command:

$ sudo apt-get install octave

And, should you be interested in qtoctave (Octave's 3rd-party GUI):

$ sudo apt-get install qtoctave

Hope that helps.

Fausto