I am really angry. Just installed the new ubuntu and run apt-get install octave. I got tons of crap installed (like Java, some QT libraries, and other pollution).
How can I install Octave in Ubuntu 16.04 without the dependency to any GUI stuff? If the latest version of Octave does not have a "clean" package, then how to install an old version which does not have the GUI?
Don't be angry :)
I installed GNU Octave, version 4.0.0 on my fresh Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Here's how you can install it in your system:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:octave/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install octave
sudo apt-get build-dep octave
wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/octave-4.0.0.tar.gz
tar xf octave-4.0.0.tar.gz
cd octave-4.0.0/
./configure
make
sudo make install
Run octave-cli on your terminal to verify.
Choose what option fits you. I used PPA, coz it's simple.
sudo apt-get install octave?
– alpha_989
Nov 26 '17 at 03:42
You can install Octave from source without any GUI stuff.
$ wget -c ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/octave-4.2.1.tar.xz
$ tar -xf octave-4.2.1.tar.gz
(or newer version, depending on what you want)
$ cd octave-4.2.1/
$ ./configure --without-java
The configure script will likely give you a bunch of errors and/or warnings because of missing dependencies. In fact Octave is quite forgiving with missing libraries, but a few are obviously required or at least highly advisable to have. I would at least
$ sudo apt-get install gfortran libfftw3-dev libfltk1.3-dev libarpack2-dev libqrupdate-dev libreadline-dev texinfo
Then again ./configure --without-java. It may still give errors, depending on what you have already installed on your system. The standard rule is: for e.g.
configure: WARNING: FFTW3 library not found.
fetch the library with sudo apt-get install libfftw3-dev.
Once the configure script runs with no warnings except those relating to GUI, Java, audio, or logos, you can start the build:
$ make
This will take some time. If you're in a hurry and/or have some CPU cores to spend, use make -j4 for quadruply-parallel compilation.
Once this is done, check that everything works with e.g.
$ ./run-octave
GNU Octave, version 4.0.0
Copyright (C) 2015 John W. Eaton and others.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. For details, type 'warranty'.
Octave was configured for "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu".
Additional information about Octave is available at http://www.octave.org.
Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/get-involved.html
Read http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to submit bug reports.
For information about changes from previous versions, type 'news'.
octave:1> [1 2 3; 4 5 6]
ans =
1 2 3
4 5 6
octave:2> [1 2 3; 4 5 6] \ [1; 0]
ans =
-0.94444
-0.11111
0.72222
octave:3> svd([1 2 3; 4 5 6])
ans =
9.50803
0.77287
If something doesn't work yet, you may wish to install more libraries, then configure and $ make again. (Perhaps you first need to $ make clean so it actually builds anew, not sure about this.)
If it works to your satisfaction, finally bake the install to your system:
$ sudo make install
A workaround for this problem was to install miniconda (no sudo needed) via
$ wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
$ bash Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
and then install octave package in a new conda environment via
$ conda create --name myoctave --channel conda-forge octave
$ source activate myoctave # or conda activate myoctave
(myoctave) $ octave-cli
afterwards you can delete the conda environment which will delete all octave packages without any trace for your linux system
(myoctave) $ source deactivate # conda deactivate
$ conda env remove --name myoctave
octave-clipackage without Qt/Java/etc. – cas May 04 '16 at 06:10