Re: octave on linux Mint

[Sergei Steshenko]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>
> To: pantxo diribarne <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 4:27 PM
> Subject: Re: octave on linux Mint
> 
> On 20 July 2012 08:09, pantxo diribarne <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
>>  I installed linux Mint13 (Cinamon/Mate)  on a brand new workstation and 
> want
>>  to install latest Octave release. I saw that it was supposed to be 
> available
>>  on this platform
>>  (http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Octave_for_GNU/Linux), but I
>>  couldn't figure out the way to install it.
> 
> I don't know much about Linux Mint, but it's my understanding that the
> Ubuntu repositories should be usable on Mint. If so, try to use these
> Ubuntu PPAs for Octave before you attempt to build it from source:
> 
> http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Octave_for_GNU_Linux:_Binary_Octave_packages_for_GNU_Linux#Unofficial_binaries
> 
> - Jordi G. H.
> _______________________________________________


AFAIR some releases of Mint are based on Debian directly, and some on Ubuntu - 
that's why I suggested to ask directly "there".

Regards,
  Sergei.