The Octave Forge package repository is no longer actively maintained. Please find Octave Packages at https://packages.octave.org.

Octave Forge

Old package index for GNU Octave

  • Expands  Octave's core functionality by providing field specific features via Octave's package system
  • Image and signal processing, fuzzy logic, instrument control, and statistics… and more!  full list of packages
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The project has been selected as SourceForge Project of the Month in October 2017. Learn more about the history and purpose of Octave Forge in the  interview at SourceForge's Blog.

Installation

Refer to the  GNU Octave web site for information about how to install GNU Octave itself on your specific OS. Many OS distributions of Octave also provide Octave Forge packages.

Display already installed packages

To query the list of locally installed packages, use the pkg command from the Octave prompt by typing: pkg list

Individual package installation

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.

Recent news

Package releases RSS

stk-2.7.0 released
sockets-1.3.0 released
dicom-0.4.1 released
mapping-1.4.2 released
interval-3.2.1 released
communications-1.2.4 released

 

This is only 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.