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Re: Migrating to Linux/Octave
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Paul Thomas |
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Re: Migrating to Linux/Octave |
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Thu, 7 Oct 2004 17:29:01 +0200 |
Chris,
You can, perhaps, stage the process:
1) You can get going with Paul Kienzle's octave
binary for Windows, albeit an oldish version (2.1.50), by downloading
from:
Click on the first link to octave-forge and you
will find a series of downloads: click on octave-2.1.50a.exe
This is the most reliable of all the Windows
binaries that I know of.
Clicking on the .exe file from Explorer results in
the execution of the install programme - there are one or two questions about
install options but it is otherwise very rapid and easy. It comes with
octave-forge, so does most of the things that Matlab does.
You will find it useful to have an editor that
knows about Matlab/octave. SciTe is probably the most straight forward for
Windows users:
but there is a Windows version of emacs available
too:
2) To dip your toes in Linux, why don't you
download Cygwin:
This is a form of Linux that runs under
Windows. It will provide you with all the standard Linux tools and, when
you are feeling comfortable with it, you can build the latest octave and still
have access to Windows. You can run Xwindows through it and there is even
a KDE desktop that works reasonably well under Windows.
There is a slight problem with the latest version
of the gcc compiler suite that makes Cygwin run slowly for some operations (
what one might call fortran-like octave code). When you get to that stage,
the problem might be sorted, or one of us can provide you with an older version
of the compilers.
An alternative, at this stage, is to install Dirk
Eddelbuetel's Quantian from:
This is designed for those doing numeric/scientific
work and is packed with goodies, including octave-2.1.57 (at the moment),
octave-forge , atlas and fftw
3) Finally, when you are feeling really
comfortable, download one of the the Linux distributions and load it in parallel
with Windows. This is the configuration that I use. I bought a
second hard-drive and installed Linux on that. Lilo allows one to switch
between the two at boot time. I have a partition on the Windows drive that
serves as a communication space between the two.
Sorry if I let the verbosity get out of hand but it
seemed a good idea to suggest a route-map to you!
Paul Thomas
- Migrating to Linux/Octave, Chris Marks, 2004/10/07
- Re: Migrating to Linux/Octave, A S Hodel, 2004/10/07
- RE: Migrating to Linux/Octave, NZG, 2004/10/07
- Re: Migrating to Linux/Octave,
Paul Thomas <=
- Re: Migrating to Linux/Octave, E. Joshua Rigler, 2004/10/07
- Re: Migrating to Linux/Octave, Jonathan Stickel, 2004/10/07
- Re: Migrating to Linux/Octave, Przemek Klosowski, 2004/10/07
- Re: Migrating to Linux/Octave, Ada Cheng, 2004/10/07