Slackware

Follow the general directions, 2.3.2, above when opening the TAR archive.

• The tested build was done on Kernel 3.10.104, 64 bit system. From the top directory one runs configure with appropriate options. Choose one of the following (note: options start with a double dash ``- -`` before the ''with'' and a single dash after the ``with``:

  configure -with-plplotlib
  (this assumes plplot-5.10.0 or newer packages with new function names and gnuplot-4.6.4)

  configure
  (no options will use Gnuplot instead of Plplot)

  configure -enable-all-static
  (this will use Gnuplot instead of Plplot and build static binaries.

SLACKWARE NOTES

MANPATH - Be sure to add /usr/local/share/man to MANPATH (ex. export in .bashrc)

PLPLOT - Could not build the slack package, cmake too old that comes with slackware. Do the following if this is your case also:

1. Remove cmake-2.8 (slackpkg remove cmake)
2. Download and install cmake-3.6.0 or above, link to /usr/local/bin
3. Download and untar plplot in /usr/local/src
4. Change into top directory of plplot
5. cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local >& cmake.out
6. make >& make.out
7. make install >& make_install.out

blas Use slackbuild process to build a blas package
Install (ex. installpkg blas-3.6.0-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz )

lapack Use slackbuild process to build a lapack package
Install (ex. installpkg lapack-3.6.0-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz )

gsl Use slackbuild process to build a gsl package
Install (ex. installpkg gsl-1.16-86_64-1_SBo.tgz )

lzip Use slackbuild process to build a lzip package
Install (ex. installpkg lzip-1.14-86_64-1_SBo.tgz )
NOTE: lzip is required to extract octave package

octave Use slackbuild process to build an octave package
Install (ex. installpkg octave-4.2.1-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz )

Running Octave Without GUI If you don't want to run octave with qt-octave,
Start octave with the command: octave -no-gui