<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.5, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title>Using Packages (GNU Octave (version 5.1.0))</title> <meta name="description" content="Using Packages (GNU Octave (version 5.1.0))"> <meta name="keywords" content="Using Packages (GNU Octave (version 5.1.0))"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> <link href="index.html#Top" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Concept-Index.html#Concept-Index" rel="index" title="Concept Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Packages.html#Packages" rel="up" title="Packages"> <link href="Administrating-Packages.html#Administrating-Packages" rel="next" title="Administrating Packages"> <link href="Installing-and-Removing-Packages.html#Installing-and-Removing-Packages" rel="prev" title="Installing and Removing Packages"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} blockquote.smallindentedblock {margin-right: 0em; font-size: smaller} blockquote.smallquotation {font-size: smaller} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} div.lisp {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smalldisplay {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smallexample {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smalllisp {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} pre.smalldisplay {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} pre.smallexample {font-size: smaller} pre.smallformat {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} pre.smalllisp {font-size: smaller} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="octave.css"> </head> <body lang="en"> <a name="Using-Packages"></a> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Administrating-Packages.html#Administrating-Packages" accesskey="n" rel="next">Administrating Packages</a>, Previous: <a href="Installing-and-Removing-Packages.html#Installing-and-Removing-Packages" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Installing and Removing Packages</a>, Up: <a href="Packages.html#Packages" accesskey="u" rel="up">Packages</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Concept-Index.html#Concept-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <a name="Using-Packages-1"></a> <h3 class="section">37.2 Using Packages</h3> <p>By default installed packages are not available from the Octave prompt, but it is possible to control this using the <code>pkg load</code> and <code>pkg unload</code> commands. The functions from a package can be added to the Octave path by typing </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">pkg load package_name </pre></div> <p>where <code>package_name</code> is the name of the package to be added to the path. </p> <p>In much the same way a package can be removed from the Octave path by typing </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">pkg unload package_name </pre></div> </body> </html>