I don’t use Octave often, but when it’s needed, nothing else will do.

Octave doesn’t appear to be part of RHEL anymore, so it’s not included in CentOS 5. It is available, however, on the EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) project.To pull Octave from EPEL using yum, you first need to add the EPEL repository to the list of available yum repositories.Then it’s yum install as usual.

To Add EPEL to Yum

The following command will install the needed files so that yum will look in EPEL. (Look at the EPEL documentation for the latest information. This was current at the time of writing.)

sudo rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm

Next, use yum as expected:

sudo yum install octave

That’s it!

1. Erez Says:
   April 14th, 2010 at 9:51 am

   Thanks !

2. the commodore Says:
   May 20th, 2010 at 9:33 pm

   finally, thanks dude!