From help-request at octave dot org Wed Jan 4 09:33:43 2006 Subject: Re: how to install OCTAVE in windows XP From: Quentin Spencer To: help at octave dot org Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 09:28:27 -0600 Mike Miller wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, A S Hodel wrote: > >> I have a short summary and some additional helpful links at >> http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/hodelas/classes/C10383623/E1699166854/index.html >> >> If there are any problems, please inform me so that I can correct >> the weblog entry. > > > > On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, John W. Eaton wrote: > > If the dependencies are all correct, it should be sufficient to simply > choose to install the Octave package and that should cause the Cygwin > installer to select and install all the other things Octave needs, > including gnuplot, X11, etc. If that doesn't happen, then it might be > a bug in the dependency lists. > > I haven't tested that yet. I have tested it recently, and it works well. One observation I have is that by the time you add X11 and all the other dependencies, it gets to be a lot of packages to install. The complete octave + octave-forge installation I did used something like 250 MB of disk space. The whole list of dependencies includes things that I don't think octave actually needs like perl (if I recall correctly, something in either octave or octave-forge required part of TeX, which required perl). On Unix-like systems it's all pretty standard, but it may be a bit overwhelming to a Windows user. -Quentin ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------