__HEADER__(`Downloading Octave')

<div class="section">
__TITLE_BAR__(`Latest Release')

<p>There are several different versions of Octave available for
download:</p>

<dl>
<dt>stable</dt>
<dd>This version is well tested, reliable, but also quite old and no
longer maintained.</dd>
<dt>testing</dt>
<dd>A recent snapshot of the development sources that has been selected as
being reasonably good.  Most people who are not actively involved in
Octave's development will want to use this version.</dd>
<dt>development</dt>
<dd>The most recent snapshot of the development sources.  Use this if you
want the latest features and it doesn't bother you that you might run
into a few problems (if you do, please report them).  If you are
interested in up-to-the-minute changes, you may use the sources from
the public CVS archive instead (see below for details).</dd>
</dl>

__DOWNLOAD_INFO__(`2.0.17', `12 Apr 2002', `2.1.73', `22 Mar 2006', `2.9.9', `2 Oct 2006')
</div>

<div class="section">
__TITLE_BAR__(`Contributed Packages')

<p>A collection of contributed packages for Octave is available from
__HTTP__(`octave.sf.net').</p>
</div>

<div class="section">
__TITLE_BAR__(`Binaries')

<h4>Linux</h4>

<p>Binaries for Linux distributions are generally available with
the distribution (__HTTP__(`www.debian.org', `Debian'),
__HTTP__(`www.novell.com/linux/suse', `SuSE'),
__HTTP__(`www.redhat.com', `RedHat'), and others have packages).</p>

<h4>Mac OS X</h4>

<p>There are several choices for OS X binaries:</p>

<ul>
<li>__HTTP__(`hpc.sourceforge.net',
             `Mac OS X High Performance Computing')</li>
<li>__HTTP__(`darwinports.opendarwin.org',
             `DarwinPorts package management system')</li>
<li>The __HTTP__(`fink.sourceforge.net', `Fink project')
 currently only has an old version of Octave available.</li>
</ul>

<h4>Windows</h4>

<ul>
<li>If you have cygwin, then look in the Math category for the most
recent Cygwin package of Octave, available from
__HTTP__(`www.cygwin.com', `www.cygwin.com').</li>

<li>If you do not have cygwin (you will most likely know if you have
it), download the most recent version of octave-forge-windows from
__HTTP__(`sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2888',
`Octave-Forge Files').  WARNING: do not install this package if you
have cygwin installed</li>

</ul>
</div>

<h4>OS/2 or eComStation</h4>

<p>Dmitry Froloff has built OS/2 binaries that are available at
<a href="http://froloff.homeip.net/">http://froloff.homeip.net/</a>.</p>

<div class="section">
__TITLE_BAR__(`FTP Mirror Sites')

<p>If you have trouble transferring Octave from this site, you might try
one of those listed below.  They mirror the files from
__OCTAVE_FTP__(`', `ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave').</p>

<p>__FTP__(`ftp.eos.hokudai.ac.jp/pub/GNU/misc/octave')<br />
__FTP__(`ftp.math.uni-hamburg.de/pub/soft/math/octave')<br />
__FTP__(`ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/SciEng/numanal/Octave')</p>

__TITLE_BAR__(`GNU Project FTP Site')

<p>The latest stable release of the Octave sources may also be found on
the official Free Software Foundation ftp site,
__FTP__(`ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu', `ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu'),
which is also mirrored on many sites around the world.</p>
</div>

<div class="section">
__TITLE_BAR__(`Anonymous CVS')

<p>The latest development sources of Octave are also available via
anonymous access to a read-only CVS archive.  There are also web
interfaces to the archive available at
__HTTP__(`www.octave.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi').</p>

<p>If you decide to use the development sources from the CVS
archive, please read the file __OCTAVE_FTP__(`/bleeding-edge/README',
`ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/bleeding-edge/README').</p>

<p>Assuming you have CVS and ssh installed on your machine you may check
out the latest development version of Octave sources with the following
sequence of commands:</p>

<p>Set CVS_RSH in your environment to</p>

<div class="code"><code>ssh</code></div>

<p>Set CVSROOT in your environment to</p>

<div class="code"><code>:ext:anoncvs@www.octave.org:/cvs</code></div>

<p>Or alternately add</p>

<div class="code"><code>-d :ext:anoncvs@www.octave.org:/cvs</code></div>

<p>in the CVS commands below (place it immediately after <code>cvs</code>,
before any other CVS arguments).</p>

<p>Issue the command</p>

<div class="code"><code>cvs -z 9 checkout octave</code></div>

<p>to check out the all of the current development sources for Octave.</p>

<p>Once you've got the repository checked out, <code>cvs update</code>
will sync your local copy with the repository.  See the CVS manual for
additional information on how to use CVS.</p>
</div>

__OCTAVE_TRAILER__(`download')