<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Installation - Frequently asked questions about Octave (with answers)</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="Frequently asked questions about Octave (with answers)"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="prev" href="Getting-Octave.html#Getting-Octave" title="Getting Octave"> <link rel="next" href="Common-problems.html#Common-problems" title="Common problems"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="Installation"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Common-problems.html#Common-problems">Common problems</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Getting-Octave.html#Getting-Octave">Getting Octave</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="index.html#Top">Top</a> <hr> </div> <h2 class="chapter">8 Installation Issues and Problems</h2> <p><a name="index-Octave_002c-building-26"></a> Octave 3.4 require approximately 1.3 GB of disk storage to unpack and compile from source (considerably less if you don't compile with debugging symbols). Once installed, Octave requires approximately 355 MB of disk space (again, considerably less if you don't compile with debugging symbols, approximately 50 MB). <ul class="menu"> <li><a accesskey="1" href="What-else-do-I-need_003f.html#What-else-do-I-need_003f">What else do I need?</a> <li><a accesskey="2" href="Other-C_002b_002b-compilers_003f.html#Other-C_002b_002b-compilers_003f">Other C++ compilers?</a> </ul> </body></html>