Octave-Forge is a central location for the collaborative development of packages for GNU Octave.
The Octave Forge packages contains the source for all the functions and are designed to work with the Octave package system. In general the packages are designed to work with the latest development version of Octave, but it should be possible to use most packages with earlier versions.
Installing packages
You can find the list of packages by clicking on the Packages link at the top. To install a package, use the pkg command from the Octave prompt by typing:
pkg install -forge package_name
where package_name is the name of the package you want to install.
While GNU Octave and Octave Forge are separate projects, their communities are the same. See Octave's support page for help with Octave Forge.
If you have new code to contribute, submit it to the patch tracker. If you want to report a bug, use the bug tracker instead.
For convenience Octave-Forge supplies pre-built installers for Octave:
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Windows: installers |
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Mac OSX: install instructions |
Recent News
This is a short abbreviated list of the changes that were introduced in recent versions of octave-forge. For a full list of changes please see the News Archive.
- May 4, 2013
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octcdf-1.1.6 released
- April 28, 2013
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nurbs-1.3.7 released
- April 9, 2013
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splines-1.2.0 released
- April 8, 2013
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geometry-1.7.0 released instrument-control-0.2.0 released
- March 25, 2013
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signal-1.2.2 released
- March 18, 2013
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database-2.1.1 released
- March 17, 2013
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signal-1.2.1 released
- March 2, 2013
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database-2.1.0 released io-1.2.1 released windows-1.2.1 released
- February 23, 2013
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windows-1.2.0 released
- February 22, 2013
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optiminterp-0.3.4 released odepkg-0.8.4 released
- February 19, 2013
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database-2.0.1 released
- February 17, 2013
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control-2.4.2 released
econometrics-1.1.1 released
- February 6, 2013
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econometrics-1.1.0 released
- February 5, 2013
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queueing-1.2.1 released
- February 3, 2013
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database-2.0.0 released
- January 28, 2013
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spline-gcvspl package has been removed from Octave Forge
- January 14, 2013
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statistics-1.2.0 released
- December 27, 2012
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io-1.2.0 released
- November 28, 2012
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splines-1.1.2 released
- November 26, 2012
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splines-1.1.1 released
- November 20, 2012
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cgi-0.1.0 released
- November 8, 2012
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image-2.0.0 released
- November 5, 2012
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queueing-1.2.0 released
optim-1.2.2 released
- November 1, 2012
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control-2.4.1 released
fpl-1.3.3 released
- October 26, 2012
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bim-1.1.1 released
msh-1.0.6 released
- October 25, 2012
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quaternion-2.0.2 released
- October 21, 2012
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bim-1.1.0 released
msh-1.0.5 released
- October 16, 2012
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miscellaneous-1.2.0 released
combinatorics-2.0.0 released
physicalconstants-1.0.0 released
- October 14, 2012
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quaternion-2.0.1 released
- October 12, 2012
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generate_html-0.1.5 released
geometry-1.6.0 released
- October 3, 2012
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fuzzy-logic-toolkit-0.4.2 released
octclip-1.0.3 released
octproj-1.1.2 released
- October 2, 2012
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instrument-control-0.1.0 released
- September 26, 2012
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control-2.4.0 released
- September 21, 2012
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signal-1.2.0 released
- September 15, 2012
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control-2.3.54 released
optim-1.2.1 released
- September 13, 2012
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fpl-1.3.2 released
- September 8, 2012
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queueing-1.1.1 released
- September 7, 2012
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io-1.0.20 released
- August 29, 2012
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mechanics-1.3.1 released
openmpi_ext-1.1.0 released
- August 27, 2012
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control-2.3.53 released
- August 26, 2012
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fuzzy-logic-toolkit-0.4.1 released
- August 24, 2012
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mechanics-1.3.0 released
- August 17, 2012
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lssa-0.1.2 released
- August 14, 2012
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lssa-0.1.1 released
- August 10, 2012
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fpl-1.3.1 released
- August 8, 2012
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fpl-1.3.0 released
- August 3, 2012
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general-1.3.2 released
- July 25, 2012
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fits-1.0.2 released
java-1.2.9 released
- July 24, 2012
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splines-1.1.0 released
- July 18, 2012
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ncArray-1.0.0 released
- July 10, 2012
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fuzzy-logic-toolkit-0.4.0 released
- July 3, 2012
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octcdf-1.1.5 released
- June 25, 2012
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control-2.3.52 released
- June 21, 2012
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sockets-1.0.8 released
- June 18, 2012
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vrml-1.0.13 released
- June 12, 2012
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optim-1.2.0 released
- June 8, 2012
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io-1.0.19 released
- June 5, 2012
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geometry-1.5.0 released

