Re: Octave for Raspberry-Pi Microcontroller/Computer

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* randomvibe <address@hidden> [2013-01-03 18:09]:
> Raspberry-Pi (or just R-Pi) is a very cheap single board computer ($25 USD) 
> with general purpose inputs & outputs for embedded system purposes like 
> Ardunio.  The maker provides Linux distributions (Debian and Arch Linux ARM 
> distributions) with a Python compiler.  Question... has the Octave community 
> tried installing Octave on the R-Pi?  Or for the Beaglebone system?  I 
> believe Octave (like Matlab) is the ultimate scientific/engineering 
> programming language, especially for matrix operations and embedded systems. 
> Arduino is the most popular microcontroller at the moment, but requires C 
> programming.
>
> Someone in the R-Pi community claims to have installed Octave, but no 
> details given (see thread below).  Help would be much appreciated.  Thank 
> you.
>
> http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=24687

It seems that Octave 3.6.2 and all the Octave-Forge packages maintained 
in Debian are also part of the Raspbian wheezy distribution.  See:

    http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/dists/wheezy/main/binary-armhf/Packages

I have never used Raspberry-Pi, but installing Octave & friends in 
Raspbian should be as simple as:

    aptitude install octave

Rafael