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03-06-2013

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How to install Octave?

This is probably something really simple, but I don't get it. I downloaded a copy of Octave and extracted it to octave-2.1.73-sol10-sparc-local. Now what do I do with it? I chmod'ed it to 777 and tried running it which just gave me an endless stream of errors. Here's the beginning of the file if that helps.

Code:

-bash-3.00$ more octave-2.1.73-sol10-sparc-local
# PaCkAgE DaTaStReAm
SMCoctv 1 190880
# end of header
070701000076e1000081a40000000a0000000a0000000145bb61c
000000ae000000880000000b00000000000000000000001000000000SMCoctv/pkginfoPKG=SMCoctv
NAME=octave
ARCH=sparc
VERSION=2.1.73
CATEGORY=application
VENDOR=John W. Eaton
EMAIL=steve@smc.vnet.net
PSTAMP=Steve Christensen
BASEDIR=/usr/local
CLASSES=none
070701000076d6000081a40000000a0000000a0000000145bb61c10003bc6e000000880000000b0000000000000000
0000000f00000000SMCoctv/pkgmap: 1 190880
1 d none bin 0755 bin bin
1 s none bin/mkoctfile=mkoctfile-2.1.73
1 f none bin/mkoctfile-2.1.73 0755 bin bin 10961 36812 1169908134
1 s none bin/octave=octave-2.1.73

I'm stumped.

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octave

OCTAVE(1)						      General Commands Manual							 OCTAVE(1)

NAME

       octave - A high-level interactive language for numerical computations.

SYNOPSIS

       octave [options]... [file]

DESCRIPTION

       Octave  is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations.  It provides a convenient command line interface for solv-
       ing linear and nonlinear problems numerically.

OPTIONS

       The complete set of command-line options for octave is available by running the following command from the shell.

	   octave --help

DOCUMENTATION

       The primary documentation for Octave is written using Texinfo, the GNU documentation system, which allows the same source files to be  used
       to produce on-line and printed versions of the manual.

       You can read the on-line copy of the Octave documentation by issuing the following command from within octave.

	   octave:1> doc

       The  Info  files may also be read with a stand-alone program such as info or xinfo.  HTML, Postscript, or PDF versions of the documentation
       are installed on many systems as well.

BUGS

       The Octave project maintains a bug tracker at http://bugs.octave.org.  Before submitting  a  new  item  please  read  the  instructions	at
       http://www.octave.org/bugs.html on how to submit a useful report.

FILES

       Upon startup Octave looks for four initialization files.  Each file may contain any number of valid Octave commands.

       octave-home/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc
	      Site-wide  initialization file which changes options for all users.  octave-home is the directory where Octave was installed such as
	      /usr/local.

       octave-home/share/octave/version/m/startup/octaverc
	      Site-wide initialization file for Octave version version.

       ~/.octaverc
	      User's personal initialization file.

       .octaverc
	      Project-specific initialization file located in the current directory.

AUTHOR

       John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>

GNU Octave							  4 February 2011							 OCTAVE(1)