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nsis-installer: Use custom page for shortcuts and install for all users. * binary-dist-rules.mk: copy installer-files/README.html to dist folder. * installer-files/README.html: New file. * makeinst-script.sh: Added custom page for Install for all users and Create shortcuts. Reassigned show readme checkbox for showing README.html at end of install. Run octave-gui as the Run program.
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3 <title>GNU Octave</title>
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12 <h2>Welcome</h2>
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14 Thank you for installing GNU Octave!
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17 Octave 3.8 is a major new release with many new features, including an
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18 experimental graphical user interface. But because the GUI is not
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19 quite as polished as we would like, we have decided to wait until the
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20 4.0.x release series before making the GUI the default interface.
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23 See the release notes or the "Experimental GUI Info" button in the GUI
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24 for more information about the release and how you can help us with
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25 GUI development and speed up the 4.0 release.
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27 <h2>Included Octave Forge Packages</h2>
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29 A number of Octave-forge packages have been included with this install Octave,
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30 however they need to be installed in order to use them.
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33 To install:
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35 <li>Start Octave and then open the build_packages.m file found in the src folder
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36 where Octave was installed.</li>
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37 <li>Run the build_packages.m script to build and install the packages.</li>
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38 </ul>
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39 Packages must then be loaded in order to use them with the <tt>pkg load PACKAGENAME</tt> command.
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42 Other packages are available from <a href="http://octave.sourceforge.net/">Octave-Forge</a>
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