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| author | John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> |
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| date | Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:49:45 -0400 |
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| 2993 | 1 GNU Octave -- a high-level language for numerical computations. |
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| 8922 | 3 Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2007, 2009 John W. Eaton |
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| 5 Overview | |
| 6 -------- | |
| 7 | |
| 2993 | 8 GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical |
| 2330 | 9 computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for |
| 10 solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically. | |
| 11 | |
| 2993 | 12 GNU Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it |
| 2330 | 13 under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the |
| 7016 | 14 Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your |
| 15 option) any later version. | |
| 2330 | 16 |
| 2993 | 17 GNU Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but |
| 18 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
| 19 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the file | |
| 20 COPYING for more details. | |
| 2330 | 21 |
| 22 Availability | |
| 23 ------------ | |
| 24 | |
| 25 The latest released version of Octave is always available via | |
| 8922 | 26 anonymous ftp from ftp.gnu.org and its many mirror sites around the |
| 27 world. You may also find links to binary distributions at | |
| 28 http://www.octave.org/download.html. The current development sources | |
| 29 may be found on Savannah (http://savannah.gnu.org). | |
| 2330 | 30 |
| 31 Installation and Bugs | |
| 32 --------------------- | |
| 33 | |
| 8922 | 34 Octave requires approximately 1.5GB of disk storage to unpack and |
| 2484 | 35 compile from source (significantly less if you don't compile with |
| 7088 | 36 debugging symbols). Once installed, Octave requires approximately |
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37 450MB of disk space (again, considerably less if you don't build |
| 7088 | 38 shared libraries or the binaries and libraries do not include |
| 39 debugging symbols). | |
| 2484 | 40 |
| 3148 | 41 To compile Octave, you will need a recent version of GNU Make. You |
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42 will also need a recent version of g++ or another ANSI C++ compiler. |
| 7088 | 43 You will also need a Fortran 77 compiler or f2c. If you use f2c, you |
| 44 will need a script like fort77 that works like a normal Fortran | |
| 45 compiler by combining f2c with your C compiler in a single script. | |
| 2330 | 46 |
| 47 YOU MUST HAVE GNU MAKE TO COMPILE OCTAVE. Octave's Makefiles use | |
| 2484 | 48 features of GNU Make that are not present in other versions of make. |
| 2330 | 49 GNU Make is very portable and easy to install. |
| 50 | |
| 51 See the notes in the files INSTALL and INSTALL.OCTAVE for more | |
| 52 specific installation instructions, including directions for | |
| 53 installing Octave from a binary distribution. | |
| 54 | |
| 8922 | 55 The file BUGS explains the recommended procedure for reporting bugs. |
| 2330 | 56 |
| 2580 | 57 Documentation |
| 58 ------------- | |
| 2330 | 59 |
| 7088 | 60 Octave's manual has been revised for version 3.0, but it is lagging a |
| 2580 | 61 bit behind the development of the software. In particular, there is |
| 7088 | 62 currently no complete documentation of the C++ class libraries. If |
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63 you notice omissions or inconsistencies, please report them as bugs |
| 7088 | 64 to bug@octave.org. Specific suggestions for ways to improve Octave |
| 65 and its documentation are always welcome. Reports with patches are | |
| 66 even more welcome. | |
| 2330 | 67 |
| 2582 | 68 Additional Information |
| 69 ---------------------- | |
| 70 | |
| 71 Up to date information about Octave is available on the WWW at the | |
| 7088 | 72 URL http://www.octave.org, including archives of the help, bug, and |
| 73 maintainers mailing lists. | |
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| 8922 | 76 Last updated: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 11:18:14 EST |