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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.
author John Donoghue
date Thu, 12 Feb 2015 13:46:07 -0500
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12 <h2>Welcome</h2> 12 <h2>Welcome</h2>
13 <p> 13 <p>
14 Thank you for installing GNU Octave! 14 Thank you for installing GNU Octave!
15 </p> 15 </p>
16 <p> 16 <p>
17 Octave 3.8 is a major new release with many new features, including an 17 Octave 4.0 is a major new release with many new features, including a
18 experimental graphical user interface. But because the GUI is not 18 graphical user interface.
19 quite as polished as we would like, we have decided to wait until the
20 4.0.x release series before making the GUI the default interface.
21 </p> 19 </p>
22 <p> 20 <p>
23 See the release notes or the "Experimental GUI Info" button in the GUI 21 A full list of changes can be found in the Release notes from the News menu.
24 for more information about the release and how you can help us with
25 GUI development and speed up the 4.0 release.
26 </p> 22 </p>
27 <h2>BLAS Library selection</h2> 23 <h2>BLAS Library selection</h2>
28 <p> 24 <p>
29 During the install, a BLAS library was selected. The installer contains 2 BLAS implementations, 25 During the install, a BLAS library was selected. The installer contains 2 BLAS implementations,
30 the <a href="http://www.netlib.org/blas/">NetLib reference BLAS</a> and 26 the <a href="http://www.netlib.org/blas/">NetLib reference BLAS</a> and
34 Either can be selected after the install by copying librefblas.dll or libopenblas.dll 30 Either can be selected after the install by copying librefblas.dll or libopenblas.dll
35 to libblas.dll in the bin folder of the Octave installation. 31 to libblas.dll in the bin folder of the Octave installation.
36 </p> 32 </p>
37 <h2>Included Octave Forge Packages</h2> 33 <h2>Included Octave Forge Packages</h2>
38 <p> 34 <p>
39 A number of Octave-forge packages have been included with this install Octave, 35 A number of Octave-forge packages have been included with this install of Octave,
40 however they need to be installed in order to use them. 36 however they need to be installed in order to use them.
41 </p> 37 </p>
42 <p> 38 <p>
43 To install: 39 To install:
44 <ul> 40 <ul>
49 Packages must then be loaded in order to use them with the <tt>pkg load PACKAGENAME</tt> command. 45 Packages must then be loaded in order to use them with the <tt>pkg load PACKAGENAME</tt> command.
50 </p> 46 </p>
51 <p> 47 <p>
52 Other packages are available from <a href="http://octave.sourceforge.net/">Octave-Forge</a> 48 Other packages are available from <a href="http://octave.sourceforge.net/">Octave-Forge</a>
53 </p> 49 </p>
50 <h2>Issues</h2>
51 Please report any problems with Octave on the <a href="http://octave.org/bugs.html">Octave website</a>.
54 </body> 52 </body>
55 </html> 53 </html>