Questions tagged [octave]
GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language and software, primarily intended for numerical computations. Historically it has been solely run from the command-line (that is, through a terminal emulator) but since version 3.8.0 a graphical user interface (GUI) has been available as part of the software.
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audio-related malfuction with octave-psychtoolbox-3
I was testing an experiment developed in GNU OCTAVE + Psychtoolbox. To abort the experiment, I typed ctrl + alt + Del to Log Out (I didn't have other option). Since then, Psychtoolbox cannot support ...
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Error while installing io octave package
I want to install the GNU Octave io package, but I keep receiving the following error in the process.
pkg install -forge io
sh: 1: make: not found
error: pkg: error running 'make' for the io package.
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How to use functions from Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox of MATLAB in Octave in Ubuntu?
I need to run a (MATLAB) code which has the normrnd function, available in the Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox of MATLAB. However, I want to use GNU Octave instead of MATLAB.
How do I run this ...
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Does the octave-symbolic package still exist for Ubuntu 22.04/jammy?
We run a Jobe server for use by our CodeRunner install, including Octave on it. We have previously been asked to include the octave-symbolic package as part of our install.
We are now trying to build ...
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Octave 2d Plotting time series - line not connecting markers (precision error)
Relevant info: Octave version...5.2.0
pkgs used: io-2.6.2
tablicious-0.3.5
Ubuntu version- 20.04.4 LTS
Hi! I'm reading timestamp and temperature data from an xlsx spreadsheet into Octave. I'm running ...
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Installing GNU Octave on an offline Ubuntu system
I want to install GNU octave on an offline Ubuntu 20.04 system. I have another Ubuntu 20.04 system which is connected to the Internet. Is there any way I can download all the dependencies, packages ...
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Octave library error when reading in data (FSL PALM)
I am running FSL PALM via Octave (v.5.2.0) from Ubuntu 20.04. I installed Octave per these instructions. I am encountering this error from Octave, which I think it related to a package dependency (...
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How to create a wrapper script for the Flatpak version of Octave, to avoid the long command flatpak run org.octave.Octave?
In the apt version of octave, I can use the command octave script.m to execute the file script.m. Similarly flatpak run org.octave.Octave script.m works too.
However, to avoid the long command flatpak ...
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What's the package name for using de2bi in octave?
I'm trying to usede2bi in Octave but it seems that the package isn't installed.
To install it, I should use this command:
pkg install -forge <package_name>
I don't know the package name, ...
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Octave package install error due to libncurses5-dev
I've installed Octave on Ubuntu 21.04 but run into problems installing packages. After trying to install liboctave-dev, I get
liboctave-dev depends on libncurses5-dev; however:
Package libncurses5-...
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Why are there so many OpenBLAS packages and which one would yield fastest results?
In Ubuntu 20.04, there are many packages for OpenBLAS.
~$ apt search openblas
p libopenblas-base - Optimized BLAS (linear algebra) library (transitional) ...
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Package 'octave-octcdf' has no installation candidate (Ubuntu 18 LTS) [duplicate]
I need to install octave-octcdf package to work with Octave. I tried, sudo apt-get install -y octave-octcdf. But this receives an error as following;
user@PowerEdge-R540:~/user/tools$ sudo apt-get ...
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how to upgrade glx version from 1.2 to 1.3 or higher on WSL2 Ubuntu 20.04
I am now running octave for some plots, but it would always return an empty window.
Octave is now running on WSL2 Ubuntu 20.04 with xming for image forwarding, and it returns the following warning ...
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stable octave on MATE
I installed Octave on my RPi400 running 32-bit Ubuntu MATE for Raspberry Pi with the following commands,
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install octave
It installed fine the first time but flaked ...
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How to use Octave from repositories with OpenBLAS compiled on my computer?
It has been suggested that using Octave with OpenBLAS compiled in my own computer (rather than precompiled OpenBLAS from repositories) will make the computations faster. I installed GNU Octave (4.2.2) ...
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How to use GNU Octave with Intel MKL from Ubuntu repositories, for faster scientific computation?
Intel Math Kernel Library is a BLAS library, which is available in Ubuntu repositories from Ubuntu 19.10 onwards, and is reported to give much faster results.
How to make GNU Octave use Intel MKL ...
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I am unable to close octave [duplicate]
I had a problem with installing Octave. Now I am unable to close it once it is opened. And I am unable to shutdown the computer. What path should I set, what /etc/environment should I set?
I had used ...
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Problem using PulseAudio in a snap program
It appears that apparmor is preventing Gnu Octave from connecting to the Pulse audio pipe. How can I remove this restriction.
dmesg output
[10986.689501] audit: type=1400 audit(1590956219.198:4342): ...
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GNU Octave documentation failure
When starting GNU Octave, I get this error window
Looking in /usr/share/octave/4.4.1/doc I found I did not have write access to the .qhc file there. I tried to give everyone write access to it, but ...
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Why can't I run this executable file (.exe) in Octave?
I have a source code written in Fortran 90: sourcecode.f90
It needs Lapack libraries for compilation so, I compile the source code with this command:
gfortran -o executable.exe sourcecode.f90 -...
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Fail to install control package to Octave (installed via snap)
I'm facing some difficulties installing packages in octave (5.2.0 via snap). I'm running ubuntu 19.10
The problem is:
>> pkg install -forge control
configure: error: in `/tmp/oct-bdXz48/...
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/bin/sh: 1: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string <builtin>: recipe for target 'wfdbinit.o' failed in WFDB octave toolbox installtion
I need to work by EEG signals and trying yo use WFDB from physionet site from this instruction, so based of its readme.MD file i tried to do:
$ sudo apt-get install gcc libcurl4-openssl-dev perl
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Octave error: 'dfs' undefined near line 1 column 1
how i could run SDF command in octave when i get this error:
so i have seen this GitHub related project (octave-networks-toolbox) and into is there was SDF, so i tried to install it by this command:
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warning: LFLAGS is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of Octave, use LDFLAGS instead
Ubuntu 19.10
Octave 5.1 flatpak every time I install an application I get this error then the CPU usages reaches 100%
pkg install control-3.2.0.tar.gz
warning: LFLAGS is deprecated and will be ...
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How do I fix "undefined variable: void" error loading scilab BackDoor
I'm attempting to install sci cosim for Octave, and to do so I need to install scilab, and BackDoor, however, with BackDoor installed I get the following error upon starting scilab:
atomsLoad: An ...
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Can't install octave forges with Ubuntu 19.04
Octave Forges fails to install octave from repositories on Ubuntu 19.04 using snap octave v5.1:
pkg install -forge symbolic
error: get_forge_pkg: could not read URL, please verify internet ...
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gpg key timed out error while installing GNU Octave on Ubuntu 18.04
I tried to install Octave using the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:octave/stable
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install octave
But after running the 1st command, I get the following ...
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Binding Octave Libraries
I am working with embed octave. While building the library, I encountered this error, can anyone suggest solution for this.
/usr/local/lib/octave/5.1.0/oct/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/PKG_ADD: /usr/local/...
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snap permissions for home directory for Octave
I installed the octave snap yesterday, but when I run octave, it does not have permissions to access my $HOME. How do I enable permissions?
ctaggart@rustasia:~/octave-add$ octave
octave: X11 DISPLAY ...
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Unable to install Octave in armhf - Error in loading `libopenblas.so.0`
I have installed Ubuntu 18.04 (using the armhf rootfs created by Canonical) in Termux in my mobile phone.
While installing octave (sudo apt install octave) I am getting the following error.
Setting up ...
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installing gslcblas on octave (installed via flatpak)
Installing gslcblas on octave is not a big challenge (see here).
But how can I solve the same problem, when octave is installed via flatpak on Ubuntu 18.04?
>> pkg install -forge gsl
Gtk-...
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How to create a data file which can be opened by octave
I created two files FeaturesX.dat and PriceY.dat using the command:
touch FeaturesX.dat
and
touch PriceY.dat
but when I would try to open these files from octave using the command:
load FeaturesX....
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How to install GNU Octave on Ubuntu 18.10?
While trying to install it from Ubuntu Software Store it shows the error "unmet dependencies". I just upgraded from 18.04 LTS which had Octave installed and now I can't use it anymore.
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hist(), plot() in octave shows blank screen
Code used:
x =
0.17860 0.85981 0.69683 0.56564 0.55712 0.68452 0.83126 0.11530 0.28621 0.75909
>>y
y =
4.28759 1.07059 1.53263 7.99441 0.98204 3.45242 4....
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octave from ppa with packages not possible
I installed octave using ppa, but now all octave packages (e.g. optim) have broken dependencies.
I proceeded in the following way:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:octave/stable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ ...
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Installing Octave on Ubuntu Mate on Raspberry pi 3
I have Ubuntu Mate on a raspberry pi 3 and I'm trying to install Octave without success so far. I got (sorry if its not accurate, I translated from Spanish):
$ sudo apt-get -y install octave
octave ...
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Looking for location of tmp directory in flatpak
Looking for location of tmp directory in flatpak.
I installed the Octave flatpak. When I go to access the tmp directory while in the Octave program the directory is not the same tmp directory if ...
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How to use GNU Octave instead of Minitab
As a university student, we have to solve some problems and class activity using a Windows app called Minitab, while I don't use any other operating system except Linux.
I installed GNU Octave and ...
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gsl library: gslcblas library not found but installed
I have problems with installing the gsl package. Running Xubuntu 18.04, octave 4.4.1.
Using -forge, the installation process stalls with the following message:
pkg install -forge gsl
configure: ...
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Octave - Invalid ELF header - Ubuntu 18.04
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I want to run octave code in the terminal without any GUI but am facing a ELF header error.
Full question;
I am trying to run a basic octave script as can be seen here which is saved as a ...
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Installing Octave Documentation on Ubuntu 16.04
I'd like to have on-disk documentation, as there are many times when I must be off the net. I have Ubuntu 16.04 and Octave 4.0.0. When I click the Documentation tab I get "The info file /usr/share/...
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Error while loading shared libraries: libQt5Network.so.5:
I was installing GNU octave on my Ubuntu 18.04 (from the terminal). After installation octave wouldn't open when I tried to launch it using the desktop icon. So I tried launching from the terminal and ...
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GNU Octave Command Window unreadable text
GNU Octave Command Window showing unreadable text.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. GNU Octave 4.2.2. Intel® HD Graphics 520 (Skylake GT2). Octave was installed by means of the Terminal.
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Octave command window showing unreadable text [duplicate]
When I start Octave, on the command window I see this:
However, after I run some commands, I can see they are in history and they do execute. I can see the text if I copy-paste it somewhere.
How ...
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Errors in installing octave in ubuntu 16.10 [duplicate]
Whenever I run the command "sudo apt install octave" I keep getting this in my terminal window
Err:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety/main amd64 libxml-libxml-perl amd64 2.0128+dfsg-1 ...
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error installing octave from source (qt4 unknown)
After I compile octave from source, I get the following error:
GEN libgui/src/qrc-resource.cc
Unknown option 'qt4'.
Makefile:27266: recipe for target 'libgui/src/qrc-resource.cc' failed
CXX ...
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Cannot install Octave (Dependency problem)
I've tried to install Octave in my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64bit using
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:octave/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install octave
and it generate a dependency problem
the ...
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Gnuplot and Octave giving scrollbar error
The following error is occurring in both Gnuplot and Octave at the newest installation:
error: invalid string constant "murrine-scrollbar", expected valid string constant
I have no idea how to ...
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Installing Octave 4.0.2 with apt-get
I am trying to install Octave 4.0.2 (specifically that version; I have reason to believe there is an incompatibility that affects software I want to run with and would like to install this version to ...
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Fuzzy logic simulation software
I am trying to find the best fuzzy logic simulator for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. In Windows, I have fuzzy logic working in MATLAB, but in Ubuntu, Octave doesn't seem to compile fuzzy logic code.
Is there ...
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