If you have a previous octave build from the regular Homebrew or dpo/openblas formulae, you need to unlink it first with brew unlink octave. To install Octave.app using Homebrew Cask: Alternate Installations Installing with Homebrew Cask Its dependencies are available under various FLOSS licenses.

Most of Octave.app’s code is GPL, with the exception of its Homebrew formula files, which are BSD 2-Clause License.

MacTeX, if you want the help command to work properly for Octave Forge packages.

(Some older versions of Octave.app support older versions of macOS).

If you’re feeling adventurous, beta and pre-release versions can be found on the Developer Downloads page. When running Octave.app for the first time, instead of just double-clicking it, you will need to right-click on it and choose “Open”, so you get a dialog asking you if you really want to run it, since it’s from an unidentified developer. DetailsĪll Octave.app releases are available on the Downloads page. Download TL DRĬlick here to get Octave.app 6.2.0, the current release. Our goal is to make ready-to-use Octave.app installers available to the public. We are a rag-tag band of misfits who’ve written a tool to download and build GNU Octave and its dependencies and bundle them as a Mac app. We are not an official GNU project, or part of GNU Octave. This makes it easy to install and use GNU Octave on Mac. Octave.app is a project to bundle and distribute GNU Octave as a native Mac GUI application.

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