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[emil]

DOWNLOAD math-slacko.sfs (75 MB)
md5sum.txt

I made an sfs containing Maxima, Octave and R and gnuplot.
Additional components are gcl, tcl and tk (version 8.5) and some gfortran libraries.

I made this in the new (as of Oct 2011) slacko RC, I don't know how well it works in other puppies
Edit: octave/gnuplot and R work in Lupu 511 , gcl and maxima won't.

emil

[vanchutr]

Add libgmp.so.10 then math_slacko.sfs works well in puppy_squezee_5.X.8

Thank you emil

Can you add some (more) info about "how to use these apps"? (Some base instructions about gnuplot, maxima, ...)

[emil]

Octave Tutorial
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Octave_Programming_Tutorial

gnuplot Tutorial
http://www.duke.edu/~hpgavin/gnuplot.html

Maxima Tutorial
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs/tutorial/en/gaertner-tutorial-revision/Contents.htm

R Tutorial
http://www.r-tutor.com/

those are just examples, many more on the web!

I packaged those Programs because they are leading FOSS math software. Octave is close to MATLAB (industry standard), you can use also MATLAB programming examples. Maxima is the most complete FOSS Computer Algebra System. it is not *that* far behind Mathematica and Maple, the most prominent closed source multi billion systems. R has become the de-facto standard for statistical computing.

Scilab would be a nice complementation, because it has many useful toolboxes for special applications (e.g. signal processing).

All those programs are powerful tools and interpreters, but no casual toys. You need to work with them. Doing Calculus homework with them is possible, though it may seem overkill .

Have fun, Take care
emil

[vanchutr]

Thank you again, Emil

[standarddeviant]

FYI, I was able to get the signal package up and running in octave using math-slacko.sfs and devx_slacko_5.3.sfs.

Some 'older' packages are required to work with the octave version in math-slacko.sfs. They are listed below and can be downloaded at http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Forge%20Packages/Individual%20Package%20Releases/

The order I used was
miscellaneous
struct
optim
specfun
signal

I did get some warnings, but no errors. Seems promising.

octave:30> ver
----------------------------------------------------------------------
GNU Octave Version 3.2.3
GNU Octave License: GNU General Public License
Operating System: Linux 2.6.37.6 #1 SMP Sun Jul 10 08:27:28 EST 2011 i686
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Package Name | Version | Installation directory
---------------+---------+-----------------------
miscellaneous *| 1.0.10 | /usr/local/share/octave/packages/miscellaneous-1.0.10
optim *| 1.0.15 | /usr/local/share/octave/packages/optim-1.0.15
signal *| 1.0.11 | /usr/local/share/octave/packages/signal-1.0.11
specfun *| 1.0.9 | /usr/local/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.0.9
struct *| 1.0.9 | /usr/local/share/octave/packages/struct-1.0.9[/url]

[emil]

Congratulations!
I know that the toolbox is installed from inside octave. Iit would be useful to create pet packages of some of the more important toolboxes. To track the installation and construct a package one could try to use a tool from 01mickos toolbox
http://users.tpg.com.au/01micko/01mickos_tools.html#Paco

Not nagging, maybe its possible
kind regards
emil

[standarddeviant]

hehe, no worries. I would definitely like to get individual octave packages set up as .pet files but wasn't sure how to do it. I've currently nuked the drive on my laptop, hehe. I think I'm going to work from an sdcard in the future for this, so I'm free to nuke the disk whenever I like but still come back to puppy

I'll check out that package - thanks for the suggestion!

EDIT: Just checked out paco, it definitely seems doable. The octave-packages should be able to be installed using

[emil]

[standarddeviant]