1.1 Requirements

For GPIB support (Linux only), linux-gpib must be installed before installing instrument-control. GPIB support is also available for windows by following the information from the wiki: https://wiki.octave.org/Instrument_control_package#Requirements

For VXI11 support, rpcgen, and libtirpc-devel must be installed before installing instrument-control.

For MODBUS support, the libmodbus-devel must be installed before installing instrument-control.

1.2 Windows install

If using the GNU Octave installer in Windows, the toolkit will have already been installed, and does not need to be re-installed unless a newer version is available.

Run the following command to verify if the toolkit is available:

pkg list instrument-control

1.3 Online Direct install

With an internet connection available, toolkit can be installed from octave-forge using the following command within GNU Octave:

pkg install -forge instrument-control

The latest released version of the toolkit will be downloaded, compiled and installed.

1.4 Off-line install

With the toolkit package already downloaded, and in the current directory when running GNU Octave, the package can be installed using the following command within GNU Octave:

pkg install instrument-control-0.9.3.tar.gz

1.5 Loading

Regardless of the method of installing the toolkit, in order to use its functions, the toolkit must be loaded using the pkg load command:

pkg load instrument-control

The toolkit must be loaded on each GNU Octave session.