InstallingOctave Linux

Installing octave on linux

Octave 3.4

This is the only octave version that OpenTLD works on. Supporting 3.2 is not possible because of missing essential features.

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

The following steps should set up a basic Octave system:

1. Download Octave 3.4 from the official site
2. Go to the terminal and type: sudo aptitude build-dep octave
3. Extract the file octave-3.4.0.tar.gz you grabbed from the site in a convenient place
4. Type: cd <this convenient place>; ./configure; make
5. If nothing goes wrong, still inside the convenient place, type: sudo make install

At this point you should be able to execute octave --version and see GNU Octave, version 3.4.0 on the first line.

Now you will have to install the following packages to run OpenTLD: image, miscellaneous, statistics. And optionally sockets if you want to use webcam.

To install the packages, download them, and run echo pkg install <package-version.tar.gz> | octave inside the directory where you saved the files.

You can see if the package is installed by running pkg list inside octave.