Re: Octave 4.2 Installation.

[Mike Miller]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 05:54:06 +0000, Mallikarjuna Jangannavar wrote:
> We downloaded "octave-4.2.0.tar.gz" file from
> "https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/"; and run the below command in series
> to install the octave 4.2 version in linux platform. Could you please
> let us know how can we launch the application from linux.
> 
>  Command :-
> 1.  tar -xvf octave-4.2.0.tar.gz
> 2. ./configure
> 3. make
> 4. make install

This will install Octave into the destination directory, which defaults
to `/usr/local`. If `/usr/local/bin` is in your PATH (it should be),
then you can start Octave by simply running `octave`.

All of this and much more is covered in the file INSTALL.OCTAVE that is
distributed with Octave.

-- 
mike