How To Install octave-cli-4.4.1 on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install octave

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install octave

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is octave-cli-4.4.1 and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install octave-cli-4.4.1 on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install octave-cli-4.4.1 on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install octave-cli-4.4.1 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install octave

Install octave-cli-4.4.1 on CentOS 8 using yum

Because octave-cli-4.4.1 is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install octave-cli-4.4.1 package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install octave

How to upgrade (update) a single package octave-cli-4.4.1 using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like octave-cli-4.4.1 in this example you should use the following command:

yum update octave

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade octave

How to Upgrade octave-cli-4.4.1 on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update octave

How To remove octave-cli-4.4.1 from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the octave-cli-4.4.1 package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove octave

Extra info and code examples

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. Octave has extensive tools for solving common numerical linear algebra problems, finding the roots of nonlinear equations, integrating ordinary functions, manipulating polynomials, and integrating ordinary differential and differential-algebraic equations. It is easily extensible and customizable via user-defined functions written in Octave's own language, or using dynamically loaded modules written in C++, C, Fortran, or other languages.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install octave-cli-4.4.1 using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the octave-cli-4.4.1 from CentOS 8.

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