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Asked: 2017-06-06 00:43:46 +0800 CST

Octave: Need version 4.0.1 but only 4.0.0 in package archive

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When I issue

sudo apt-get install octave

it installs octave 4.0.0. However our instructor tells us this version is broken and we have to install version 4.0.1. So I checked the available versions that the package manager has available:

mzh:~ $ sudo apt-cache madison octave
    octave | 4.0.0-3ubuntu9.1 | http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages
    octave | 4.0.0-3ubuntu9 | http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages

Looks like only 4.0.0 are available. What do I have to do so that I can install 4.0.1?

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2 Answers

  1. I'm here probably for the same reason...

    To get latest version (4.2.1 right now) :

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:octave/stable
sudo apt update
sudo apt install octave
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  2. You should compile it from source

    First make sure this all dependence are installed:

    sudo apt-get install default-jdk default-jdk-headless epstool gperf hdf5-helpers javahelper libaec-dev libarpack2-dev libblas-dev libbtf1.2.1 libcsparse3.1.4 libexif-dev libfftw3-dev libflac-dev libfltk-cairo1.3 libfltk-forms1.3 libfltk-images1.3 libfltk1.3-dev libftgl-dev libftgl2 libglpk-dev libgraphicsmagick++1-dev libgraphicsmagick1-dev libhdf5-cpp-11 libhdf5-dev libjack-dev libjasper-dev libklu1.3.3 liblapack-dev libldl2.2.1 libogg-dev libosmesa6-dev libportaudiocpp0 libqhull-dev libqrupdate-dev libqscintilla2-dev libqt4-designer libqt4-dev libqt4-dev-bin libqt4-help libqt4-opengl-dev libqt4-qt3support libqt4-scripttools libqt4-svg libqt4-test libsndfile1-dev libspqr2.0.2 libsuitesparse-dev libvorbis-dev libwmf-dev openjdk-8-jdk openjdk-8-jdk-headless portaudio19-dev qt4-linguist-tools qt4-qmake uuid-dev llvm-3.5-dev

    The simple method of sudo apt-get build-dep octave doesn't seem to work anymore as far as i know

    Then :

    wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/octave-4.0.1.tar.gz
tar xf octave-4.0.1.tar.gz
rm octave-4.0.1.tar.gz
cd octave-4.0.1/
./configure
make -j8
sudo make install

    By the way, i would suggest you go with the lastest version of octave.

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