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Re: Installing a bleeding-edge Octave next to a stable Octave
From: |
Joan Picanyol i Puig |
Subject: |
Re: Installing a bleeding-edge Octave next to a stable Octave |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:12:22 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.11 |
* Steve C. Thompson <address@hidden> [20070328 01:44]:
> 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;
In FreeBSD you have octave and octave-devel ports that can be installed
together.
> 3. what the chances are I'm about to completely mess up my
> system!
Well, there's always the issue of octave-forge
qvb
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pica