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README: update for octave 4.0 (Bug #44215) * installer-files/README.html: remove references to 3.8 and experimental GUI. Added link to bugs page.
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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 4.0 is a major new release with many new features, including a
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18 graphical user interface.
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21 A full list of changes can be found in the Release notes from the News menu.
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23 <h2>BLAS Library selection</h2>
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25 During the install, a BLAS library was selected. The installer contains 2 BLAS implementations,
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26 the <a href="http://www.netlib.org/blas/">NetLib reference BLAS</a> and
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27 <a href="http://www.openblas.net/">OpenBLAS</a>.
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30 Either can be selected after the install by copying librefblas.dll or libopenblas.dll
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31 to libblas.dll in the bin folder of the Octave installation.
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33 <h2>Included Octave Forge Packages</h2>
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35 A number of Octave-forge packages have been included with this install of Octave,
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36 however they need to be installed in order to use them.
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39 To install:
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41 <li>Start Octave and then open the build_packages.m file found in the src folder
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42 where Octave was installed.</li>
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43 <li>Run the build_packages.m script to build and install the packages.</li>
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45 Packages must then be loaded in order to use them with the <tt>pkg load PACKAGENAME</tt> command.
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48 Other packages are available from <a href="http://octave.sourceforge.net/">Octave-Forge</a>
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50 <h2>Issues</h2>
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51 Please report any problems with Octave on the <a href="http://octave.org/bugs.html">Octave website</a>.
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