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i'd like to install octave, how to get it!?
 
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It's in extras-devel, but you also need to make a couple of symlinks for the libs before it will run.
 
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i can't find with app manager. i've found it using "apt-get install octave* " on xterm but installation doesn't work

can u help me?!
 
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Originally Posted by saxen View Post
i can't find with app manager. i've found it using "apt-get install octave* " on xterm but installation doesn't work

can u help me?!
You'll need to install texinfo from the sdk repository (here). That's at least what I did and after making the symlinks for liblapack and libblas, octave runs!
 
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thanks for help! i've alread solved installing it from synaptic on easy-deb
 
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Have anybody tried SageMath? I heard it was ported to android phone. Is it possible to do with the Maemo devices also?
 
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Originally Posted by x61 View Post
Have anybody tried SageMath? I heard it was ported to android phone. Is it possible to do with the Maemo devices also?
Actually, I've been waiting for some time for someone to succesfully install or compile sagemath on the N900. That would be the ultimate tool in your pocket, you can even call octave from within sage , besides the other 100 free mathematics packages... I would really donate quite some money for such a port...
 
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Would anybody tell what is octave?
 
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Originally Posted by Joseph9560 View Post
Would anybody tell what is octave?
octave is an open source clone of matlab

a google search should turn up quite a bit of information
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So, it took me a while to figure out how to install this since I'm not a particularly experienced user.

However, to help future octave-wanting-people, here's what I did:

First off, make sure you have rootsh installed.

1.) Download the ARM .deb package for texinfo here. Download this to some directory on your N900.

2.) Install the texinfo package by going (in terminal) to the directory you downloaded it to and typing:
Code:
root
dpkg -i texinfo[VERSION]armel.deb
(the [VERSION] represents a version - at the time of writing the file is actually called texinfo_4.8.dfsg.1-4maemo2+0m5_armel.deb )

3.) Install Octave:
If you have extras-devel enabled, this should work simply by typing:
Code:
apt-get install octave
4.) Make some symlinks (Octave looks for these libraries with ".so" at the end, not ".so.3gf" so it can't find them - I think... I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong!).
Code:
cd /usr/lib
ln -s libblas.so.3gf libblas.so
ln -s liblapack.so.3gf liblapack.so
5.) Optionally, install gnuplot so you can plot things
Code:
apt-get install gnuplot

I hope this works - it did for me. Now I just need to know how to install extra toolboxes...

EDIT:
You will probably, as mentioned above, have to install "less" as well:
Code:
root
apt-get install less
Also, it would appear that octave packages can be installed by downloading from the internet (octave sourceforge) and the doing the following from within octave:
Code:
pkg install /foo/bar/downloadedpackage.tar.gz

I now have a working octave and gnuplot with control systems toolbox, which is a very handy tool for my engineering course

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