Re: Octave for Raspberry-Pi Microcontroller/Computer

[edmund ronald]

What would be really welcome would be iPad, iPhone and Android versions IMHO.
We may not like the Apple attitude, but the devices are really useful,
as they are instant-on and zero-maintenance.

Edmund

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Rafael Laboissiere
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> * 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
>
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