Information about the package, octave, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The octave package is designed for, A high-level language for numerical computations.
Package Name:
octave
Summary:
A high-level language for numerical computations
Description:
GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language. Octave has extensive tools for solving common numerical linear algebra problems, finding the roots of nonlinear equations, integrating ordinary functions, manipulating polynomials, and integrating ordinary differential and differential-algebraic equations. It is easily extensible and customizable via user-defined functions written in Octave's own language, or using dynamically loaded modules written in C++, C, Fortran, or other languages.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.4.3
Release:
2.el6
Size:
9.1 M
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv3+
Control the octave package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install octave
This command will install octave on the server.
yum remove octave
This command will un-install octave on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove octave, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove octave
This command will un-install octave on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove octave when using the -y flag.
yum update octave
This command will update octave to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove octave, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update octave
This command will update octave to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove octave when using the -y flag.
yum info octave
This command will show you core information about the octave package.
yum deplist octave
This command will show you the dependencies for octave. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update octave
This command will check if there is an update waiting on octave. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.