Closed dave559 closed 4 years ago
From asking elsewhere about trying to avoid X dependencies for another package, it turns out that the following will install octave
without bringing in the X window system.
# Install the No-X version of gnuplot explicitly first (if you need gnuplot)
sudo apt install gnuplot-nox
sudo apt-get install --no-install-suggests --no-install-recommends octave
Thanks Dave. I've modified the octave install instructions in Jobe's readme.md to match your suggestion.
I'm trying to build a new Jobe server (for testing) on Ubuntu 20.04.
octave
now seems to want manyxserver
andgnome
dependencies (which I don't think it did by default previously?).Do you know if there is a way to install a more minimal non-gui version of Octave, as it seems unnecessary (and undesirable) to bring in the whole windowing system when it is only going to be used programmatically on an otherwise 'headless' server? Possibly it might be worth liaising with the Ubuntu octave packagers about this?