*  Informatique / Octave / Installation on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

        * Installation of Octave 5.1.0
        * Installation of Octave 4.4.1
        * Installation of Octave 4.4.0
        * Installation of Octave 4.2.2
        * Installation of Octave 4.2.1
        * Installation of Octave 4.2.0

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On my computer, I need to install some packages 

sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk gcc g++ gfortran \ 
                 libpcre3-dev libqhull-dev libbz2-dev libhdf5-dev libfftw3-dev libsndfile1-dev\ 
                 libglpk-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libfreetype6-dev libgraphicsmagick1-dev libgraphicsmagick++1-dev\ 
                 libparpack2 libncurses5-dev libreadline6-dev libsqlite3-dev tix-dev libssl-dev\ 
                 gperf flex bison gnuplot libfltk1.3-dev libarpack++2-dev libqrupdate-dev\ 
                 libosmesa6-dev libqscintilla2-qt5-dev libqscintilla2-dev  qttools5-dev-tools qttools5-dev\ 
                 libxft-dev libgl2ps-dev libgdbm-dev liblzma-dev libffi-dev  libsundials-dev

and 
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libqscintilla2_qt5.so /usr/lib/libqscintilla2-qt5.so

Thanks to B. Berenguier for completing the list of required packages.
*  Installation of Octave 5.1.0

Installing Octave 5.1.0 on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS (bionic - x86_64). March 4, 2019

  1. Get source code : 

    wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/octave-5.1.0.tar.xz 
tar xvfJ octave-5.1.0.tar.xz 
cd octave-5.1.0

  2. Configure stage : 

    export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64 
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/OCTAVE/5.1.0 CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/hdf5/serial LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial/

  3. Compilation : Run make command and be patient... or more efficient make -j 4 to specify the number of threads to be used (here 4 is specified).

  4. Checking (optional): If you want to check compilation, one has to install texinfo package which depends on texlive packages: 

    sudo apt install texinfo

    Therefater, run make check command.
    Thanks to Pavel Hofman for this suggestion.

  5. Installation : Run sudo make install command.

Thereafter to launch Octave with GUI, one can execute 

/usr/local/OCTAVE/5.1.0/bin/octave --gui

or without GUI 
/usr/local/OCTAVE/5.1.0/bin/octave

*  Installation of Octave 4.4.1

Installing Octave 4.4.1 on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS (bionic - x86_64). March 4, 2019

  1. Get source code : 

    wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/octave-4.4.1.tar.xz 
tar xvfJ octave-4.4.1.tar.xz 
cd octave-4.4.1

  2. Configure stage : 

    export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64 
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/OCTAVE/4.4.1 CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/hdf5/serial LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial/

  3. Compilation : Run make command and be patient... or more efficient make -j 4 to specify the number of threads to be used (here 4 is specified).

  4. Installation : Run sudo make install command.

Thereafter to launch Octave with GUI, one can execute 

/usr/local/OCTAVE/4.4.1/bin/octave --gui

or without GUI 
/usr/local/OCTAVE/4.4.1/bin/octave

*  Installation of Octave 4.4.0

Installing Octave 4.4.0 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic - x86_64). June 21, 2018

  1. Get source code : 

    wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/octave-4.4.0.tar.xz 
tar xvfJ octave-4.4.0.tar.xz 
cd octave-4.4.0

  2. Configure stage : 

    export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64 
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/OCTAVE/4.4.0 CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/hdf5/serial LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial/

  3. Compilation : Run make command and be patient... or more efficient make -j 4 to specify the number of threads to be used (here 4 is specified).

  4. Installation : Run sudo make install command.

Thereafter to launch Octave with GUI, one can execute 

/usr/local/OCTAVE/4.4.0/bin/octave --gui

or without GUI 
/usr/local/OCTAVE/4.4.0/bin/octave

*  Installation of Octave 4.2.2

Installing Octave 4.2.2 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic - x86_64). June 21, 2018

  1. Get source code : 

    wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/octave-4.2.2.tar.xz 
tar xvfJ octave-4.2.2.tar.xz 
cd octave-4.2.2

  2. Configure stage : 

    export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64 
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/OCTAVE/4.2.2 CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/hdf5/serial LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial/

  3. Compilation : Run make command and be patient... or more efficient make -j 4 to specify the number of threads to be used (here 4 is specified).

  4. Installation : Run sudo make install command.

Thereafter to launch Octave with GUI, one can execute 

/usr/local/OCTAVE/4.2.2/bin/octave

or without GUI 
/usr/local/OCTAVE/4.2.2/bin/octave --no-gui

*  Installation of Octave 4.2.1

Installing Octave 4.2.1 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic - x86_64). June 21, 2018

  1. Get source code : 

    wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/octave-4.2.1.tar.xz 
tar xvfJ octave-4.2.1.tar.xz 
cd octave-4.2.1

  2. one have to patch octave source to avoid coredump when exit from octave: 

    octave:1> quit 
 
panic: Abandon -- stopping myself... 
attempting to save variables to ’octave-workspace’... 
panic: attempted clean up failed -- aborting... 
Abandon (core dumped)

    The patch file octave.patch (1280 bytes) was provided on http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/16fae04366b2. We can copy it on Octave source directory and runs 
    wget http://www.math.univ-paris13.fr/~cuvelier/docs/Octave/octave.patch 
patch -p1 < octave.patch

  3. Configure stage : 

    export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64 
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/OCTAVE/4.2.1 CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/hdf5/serial LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial/

  4. Compilation : Run make command and be patient... or more efficient make -j 4 to specify the number of threads to be used (here 4 is specified).

  5. Installation : Run sudo make install command.

Thereafter to launch Octave with GUI, one can execute 

/usr/local/OCTAVE/4.2.1/bin/octave

or without GUI 
/usr/local/OCTAVE/4.2.1/bin/octave --no-gui

*  Installation of Octave 4.2.0

Installing Octave 4.2.0 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic - x86_64). June 21, 2018

  1. Get source code : 

    wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/octave-4.2.0.tar.xz 
tar xvfJ octave-4.2.0.tar.xz 
cd octave-4.2.0

  2. one have to patch octave source to avoid coredump when exit from octave: 

    octave:1> quit 
 
panic: Abandon -- stopping myself... 
attempting to save variables to ’octave-workspace’... 
panic: attempted clean up failed -- aborting... 
Abandon (core dumped)

    The patch file octave.patch (1280 bytes) was provided on http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/16fae04366b2. We can copy it on Octave source directory and runs 
    wget http://www.math.univ-paris13.fr/~cuvelier/docs/Octave/octave.patch 
patch -p1 < octave.patch

  3. Configure stage : 

    export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64 
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/OCTAVE/4.2.0 CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/hdf5/serial LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial/

  4. Compilation : Run make command and be patient... or more efficient make -j 4 to specify the number of threads to be used (here 4 is specified).

  5. Installation : Run sudo make install command.

Thereafter to launch Octave with GUI, one can execute 

/usr/local/OCTAVE/4.2.0/bin/octave

or without GUI 
/usr/local/OCTAVE/4.2.0/bin/octave --no-gui