Download the latest (3.0.1) Octave source file and Octave Forge (collection of predefined functions)(http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/) 1. octave-3.0.1.tar.gz 2. octave-forge-bundle-20080507.tar.gz Dependency Packages 1. GCC (GNU compiler Collection) or C (gcc) and C++ compiler (g++) 2. Fortran 77 (G77) 3. GNU Readline 4.2 (or latest version http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/gnu/readline?C=M;O=A) 4. ncurses (http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-5.6.tar.gz) 5. termcap (http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/termcap/) 6. gperf (http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gperf/) 7. flex [...]
History The project was conceived around 1988. At first it was intended to be a companion to a chemical reactor design course. Real development was started by John W. Eaton in 1992. The first alpha release dates back to January 4, 1993 and on February 17, 1994 version 1.0 was released. Version 3.0 was released [...]