Re: diff in octave and octave-forge

[Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz@gmail.com>]

roberto wrote:
> Hi all,
> i know two different packages (among others) are downloadable for math
> computing:
> octave and octave-forge
> 
> i have installed and currently using octave 2.1.69 but what are the
> differences with octave-forge??
> can i install octave-forge without conflict with octave 2.1? (aptitude
> says yes...)
> programs in octave 2.1 are compatibles with octave-forge?
> or is just octave-forge a bundle of packages usable also from within octave??
> 
> thank you very much, any help is appreciated  : )
> 

Hello Roberto.

AFAIK, octave-forge is an add-on to octave with aditional fuctions.

I have installed this octave stuff:


ea1abz@debian-remix:~$ dpkg -l | grep octave
ii  octave         2.1.69-1       GNU Octave language for numerical
computatio
ii  octave-ci      99.09-2        Contributed functions for the GNU
Octave lan
ii  octave-forge   2004.11.16-7   Contributed functions for GNU Octave
from ht
ii  octave2.1      2.1.69-1       GNU Octave language for numerical
computatio
ii  octave2.1-doc  2.1.69-1       PDF documentation on the GNU Octave
language
ii  octave2.1-html 2.1.69-1       HTML documentation on the GNU Octave
languag
ii  octave2.1-info 2.1.69-1       GNU Info documentation on the GNU
Octave lan
ea1abz@debian-remix:~$


Enjoy!

Ramiro.