Re: Installing a bleeding-edge Octave next to a stable Octave

[Michael Creel]

Steve C. Thompson wrote:
> Dear Group,
>
> Now that I've learned about some things about Octave's MEX
> capability from
> http://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/2007-March/003473.html
> , I need to think about installing the latest Octave.  As the
> previous post states, 2.9.10.  I'm running 2.1.73 in Ubuntu,
> which is given to me simply with `apt-get install octave' .  I'm
> wondering:
>
>   1. how best to install 2.9.10 and if I can keep 2.1.73 intact;
>   2. if 1. happens, can I run the two different versions at will,
>      in parallel (for example, I'm currently running simulations
>      in 2.1.73, and I'd like to, at the same time, play around
>      with 2.9.10 for the MEX work); and
>   3. what the chances are I'm about to completely mess up my
>      system!
>
> Also, from http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html, link
> `Developmental', which sends you to
> ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/bleeding-edge , I'm not seeing
> 2.9.10.  Does this mean 2.9.10 must be installed by way of the
> anonymous CVS option?
>
> Any help one these topics will be much appreciated!
>
> Regards,
> Steve

Another possibility that has yet to be mentioned is to install to a chroot, or 
to a virtual machine. You'll for sure not mess up your existing install if you 
do either of those. M.