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authorB. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>2022-03-12 14:35:56 -0500
committerB. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>2022-03-12 14:35:56 -0500
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GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical
-computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving
-linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical
-experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab. It may
-also be used as a batch-oriented language.
+computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for
+solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing
+other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible
+with Matlab. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language.
+
+This requires a BLAS/LAPACK implementation. Choose one of these package
+sets:
-This requires a BLAS/LAPACK implementation. Choose one of these package sets:
* OpenBLAS (includes both a BLAS and a LAPACK implementation)
* atlas (includes both a BLAS and a LAPACK implementation)
* blas, lapack (the Netlib reference implementations)
-If more than one set is installed (assuming there are no packaging conflicts)
-then the auto-detection will use the first implementation from this list that
-it finds. If in doubt, choose the Netlib reference implementations; other
-packages that require a BLAS or LAPACK implementation may not build if they
-are not configured to detect/use alternate implementations.
-These optional dependencies will be used if found (see INSTALL.OCTAVE, in the
-Octave source, for a description of what each dependency offers):
-amd, camd, colamd, ccolamd, cholmod, umfpack, cxsparse, glpk, arpack-ng,
-qrupdate, sundials, qhull, hdf5, fltk, ftgl, gl2ps, jdk, GraphicsMagick,
-portaudio.
+If more than one set is installed (assuming there are no packaging
+conflicts) then the auto-detection will use the first implementation
+from this list that it finds. If in doubt, choose the Netlib
+reference implementations; other packages that require a BLAS or
+LAPACK implementation may not build if they are not configured to
+detect/use alternate implementations.
+
+These optional dependencies will be used if found (see INSTALL.OCTAVE,
+in the Octave source, for a description of what each dependency
+offers): amd, camd, colamd, ccolamd, cholmod, umfpack, cxsparse, glpk,
+arpack-ng, qrupdate, sundials, qhull, hdf5, fltk, ftgl, gl2ps, jdk,
+GraphicsMagick, portaudio.
-Octave can use ImageMagick (part of Slackware) or GraphicsMagick (available
-from SBo) for image-reading functionality. If both are installed,
-GraphicsMagick will be selected by default, since ImageMagick is not
-well-supported by the Octave developers. If you have problems with
-ImageMagick, try rebuilding Octave with GraphicsMagick, or pass MAGICK="" to
-the script.
+Octave can use ImageMagick (part of Slackware) or GraphicsMagick
+(available from SBo) for image-reading functionality. If both
+are installed, GraphicsMagick will be selected by default,
+since ImageMagick is not well-supported by the Octave developers.
+If you have problems with ImageMagick, try rebuilding Octave with
+GraphicsMagick, or pass MAGICK="" to the script.
-If you have arpack installed and the configure script segfaults when trying to
-detect arpack, try switching to arpack-ng (which is partly maintained by
-Octave developers).
+If you have arpack installed and the configure script segfaults when
+trying to detect arpack, try switching to arpack-ng (which is partly
+maintained by Octave developers).