Mercurial > mxe-octave
changeset 5526:5b5a3b078ee4
* installer-files/README.html: Update for Octave 6.1 (bug #59020).
author | Markus Mützel <markus.muetzel@gmx.de> |
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date | Thu, 27 Aug 2020 20:46:33 +0200 |
parents | aa46453cf597 |
children | bfa3a70d9f63 |
files | installer-files/README.html |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/installer-files/README.html Wed Sep 02 10:58:15 2020 -0400 +++ b/installer-files/README.html Thu Aug 27 20:46:33 2020 +0200 @@ -1,58 +1,58 @@ <html> <head> <title>GNU Octave</title> -<style TYPE="text/css"> -<!-- -body { -} -li { - margin-bottom: 1.5em -} ---> -</style> </head> <body> -<h2>Welcome</h2> +<h1>Welcome</h1> <p> Thank you for installing GNU Octave! </p> <p> -Octave 5.2 is a minor release mainly focused on fixing bugs found in Octave 5.1. +Octave 6.1 is a major release with many new features and improvements. Among +other things, it brings updates for Matlab compatibility, better graphics, and +many general improvements since version 5.2. </p> <p> A full list of changes can be found in the Release Notes from the News menu. </p> + +<h2>Changed default installation location</h2> +<p>By default, Octave now installs to the system wide default program installation +location (likely inside <code>C:\Program Files\GNU Octave</code>).</p> +<p>It is now also possible to install Octave without administrative privileges. +<br>In that case (or if an admin choses to install for the "local user" only), +the default installation location is inside +<code>%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\GNU Octave</code>.</p> + <h2>BLAS Library Selection</h2> -<p> -During the installation a default BLAS library was selected. The installer +<p>During the installation, a default BLAS library was selected. The installer contains two BLAS implementations, the <a href="http://www.netlib.org/blas/">NetLib reference BLAS</a> -and <a href="http://www.openblas.net/">OpenBLAS</a>. -</p> -<p> -The choice of library may be changed after installation by copying -either librefblas.dll or libopenblas.dll to the file libblas.dll in the bin -folder of the Octave installation, or running blas_switch from the same folder. -</p> +and <a href="http://www.openblas.net/">OpenBLAS</a>.</p> +<p>The used implementation can be changed after installation with the "BLAS +Switcher" in the Start menu.</p> + <h2>Included Octave Forge Packages</h2> -<p> -A number of Octave-Forge packages have been included with Octave, however they -must be loaded in order to use them. -</p> +<p>A <a href="https://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Microsoft_Windows#Packages"> +number of Octave-Forge packages</a> has been included with Octave for Windows. +However, the packages must be loaded in order to use them.</p> <p> <ul> <li>To list the available installed packages, use the -<tt>pkg list</tt> command.</li> +<code>pkg list</code> command.</li> <li>To load a package in order to use its functions, use the -<tt>pkg load PACKAGENAME</tt> command.</li> +<code>pkg load PACKAGENAME</code> command.</li> </ul> </p> -<p> -Other packages are available from -<a href="https://octave.sourceforge.io/">Octave-Forge</a>. -</p> -<h2>Issues</h2> -Please report any problems with Octave on the -<a href="https://octave.org/bugs.html">Octave website</a>. +<p>Other packages are available from +<a href="https://octave.sourceforge.io/">Octave-Forge</a>.</p> + +<h2>Contributing to Octave</h2> +<p>Octave has a community that lives from its users. You are welcome to share +with that community.</p> +<p>For help and support, visit the +<a href="https://octave.discourse.group/">Octave Discourse forum</a>.</p> +<p>Please, report any problems with Octave on the +<a href="https://octave.org/bugs.html">Octave website</a>.</p> </body> </html>