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33 folder of the Octave installation. 36 folder of the Octave installation.
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35 <h2>Included Octave Forge Packages</h2> 38 <h2>Included Octave Forge Packages</h2>
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37 A number of Octave-Forge packages have been included with Octave, however they 40 A number of Octave-Forge packages have been included with Octave, however they
38 must be installed in order to use them. 41 must be loaded in order to use them.
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41 To install:
42 <ul> 44 <ul>
43 <li>Start Octave and then open the build_packages.m file found in the src 45 <li>To list the available installed packages, use the
44 folder where Octave was installed.</li> 46 <tt>pkg list</tt> command.</li>
45 <li>Run the script build_packages.m to build and install the packages.</li> 47 <li>To load a package in order to use its functions, use the
48 <tt>pkg load PACKAGENAME</tt> command.</li>
46 </ul> 49 </ul>
47 Installation is a one-time procedure.
48 After installation packages must still be loaded in order to use them with the
49 <tt>pkg load PACKAGENAME</tt> command.
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52 Other packages are available from 52 Other packages are available from
53 <a href="http://octave.sourceforge.net/">Octave-Forge</a>. 53 <a href="http://octave.sourceforge.net/">Octave-Forge</a>.
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