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Re: Installing Octave on a web server
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Rob Mahurin |
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Re: Installing Octave on a web server |
Date: |
Mon, 7 Jul 2008 11:57:55 -0400 |
On Jul 7, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Quentin Feyaerts wrote:
You can install the version of Octave that comes with your
distribution.
Most distributions contain Octave, and unless you need the latest
version, the one that comes included should be fine.
This is where I'm stuck :P. I have asked hundreds of professional
web hosters and none of them can tell me if Octave is installed on
their servers (running on Linux or Windows). They all refer me to
CGI/PERL scripts, but on google I have found that, to run a CGI
script for Octave, Octave should be installed on the server. And I
dunno how to install it.. do I have to upload the files of Octave
on the server and that's it ?
The easiest way to go about this is probably to buy web hosting that
includes shell access, and install octave in your user account. It
sounds like you have file-transfer-only access.
If you have access to a computer that can build linux binaries you
might be able to build a statically-linked octave and upload that.
The "linux binaries" referred to by http://www.gnu.org/software/
octave/download.html are dynamically linked, and might look for
libraries that your web server doesn't have installed.
If you uncompress octave-3.0.1.tar.gz you will just get the source
code, which doesn't do anything unless you compile it.
Cheers,
Rob
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Rob Mahurin
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
University of Tennessee phone: 865 207 2594
Knoxville, TN 37996 email: address@hidden