Installing Octave

Procedure

1. Use PuTTY to log in to the server as the root user.
2. Download the source code to the /home directory:

   cd /home
   wget https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/gnu/octave/octave-6.4.0.tar.gz

3. Decompress the installation package and perform the installation.

   tar -zxvf octave-6.4.0.tar.gz
   cd /home/octave-6.4.0
   ./configure --prefix=/opt/octave --disable-readline
   make

   

   make install

4. Set the environment variables.

   export PATH=/path/to/octave/bin:$PATH
   export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/octave/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

5. Perform the verification.

   octave-cli

   If the following information is displayed, the installation is successful: