Octave Version 5.2.0 has been released and is now available for download. An official Windows binary installer is also available. For macOS see the installation instructions in the wiki. How do I install Octave on Mac OS X? Hi, I need to use octave for university purpose. Unfortunatly I haven't got any Idea how to use Unix. Also I'm a mac user only for 2 month. I would be please.
Octave is a programming language for scientific computing.
Prerequisite
You might need
homebrew-cask
; if you don't have it, refer to this section.![Free Free](/uploads/1/1/8/8/118894146/885571720.jpg)
Octave Manual
Installation
Homebrew Octave.app
Octave.app is a project to distribute GNU Octave as a native Mac GUI application, to make it easier to install and use Octave on macOS. Note this is not an official GNU or GNU Octave project.As this distributes a compiled version of Octave, installation will be much faster.
To install using homebrew-cask run:
Homebrew official
You can also install Octave from the official Homebrew source using the method below.
Install
octave
from core Homebrew (which is available by default):Note: If
brew
complains about not having a formula for Octave, the following command should fix it:The command below upgrades Octave and its dependencies to the latest Homebrew-supported versions:
Octave has many dependencies which will be downloaded and installed prior to Octave. The entire installation process can take a few hours if you are compiling from source.
Note: On Snow Leopard or earlier, Octave requires an X server. You can download one from the XQuartz project.
You might find that you need to add:
Download Octave For Mac
to your octaverc file, normally located at
/usr/local/share/octave/site/m/startup
.