[OctDev] Re: Regarding Octave

[Henry F. M. <mo...@pa...>]

Do I have this roughly correct for Mac OS X 10.2.8?
Henry
1. qhull = symolic tookbox. What does qhull stand for? A recent posting by
Per Persson indicated that he's working on it to make it work.

2. ginac = geometry toolbox. What does ginac stand for? As above for qhull
re use on Mac OS X.

3. atlas = automatically tuned linear algebra subgroups. No longer needed in
OS X 10.2 because atlas is provided as part of vecLib which includes blas,
lapack, vDSP, and vMathLib.

4. fftw = discrete fourier transform. Can it be considered to be a toolbox?
When I last installed octave 2.1.46 using fink it was part of the
installation. I most likely have not used it, would not know how to use it
but I know what a discrete fourier tranform is because I use it in the
analysis of life cycle graphs.

5. hdf = scientific data format. Can it considered to be a toolbox? What
exactly does it do? Fink installed it but I doubt that I've used it, nor
would I know how to use it.






on 2/29/04 12:48 PM, Paul Kienzle at pki...@us... wrote:

> 
> On Feb 29, 2004, at 11:59 AM, Etienne Grossmann wrote:
> 
>> 
>>   Hi,
>> 
>> if you use Debian Linux, it can be as simple as entering the commands
>> 
>>   apt-get install octave2.1
>> 
>> and octave-2.1 will be installed. I don't know how it works w/ other
>> linux distributions, but I think Red Hat and Suse have Octave binary
>> packages. This seems to be what is said on octave's download page
>> 
>>   http://www.octave.org/download.html
>> 
>> You did read the 'binaries' section of that page, right?
>> 
>>   For Windows -not my area of expertise- it points to cygwin and
>> octave-forge. In the later, at
>> 
>>   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2888
>> 
>> I see a file called
>> 
>>   octave-2.1.50a-inst.exe
>> 
>> this *may* be a binary for octave itself. Hey! Someone on the list? Is
>> this an octave binary? Anyone who knows, please answer!
> 
> Yes, octave-2.1.50a-inst.exe is an installable package with
> octave+octave-forge+gnuplot+cygwin all bundled together.
> It uses different registry keys from Cygwin, so it won't interfere
> with an existing installation.  It does not use Atlas or FFTW
> or HDF.  Qhull and GiNaC are not included, so no symbolic
> and no geometry toolbox.
> 
> For those without broadband, I would prefer to have these
> available as separate packages but that will be a project
> for somebody else.
> 
> Paul Kienzle
> pki...@us...
> 
> 
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