如何一次安装，验证和更新所有Octave软件包？

Question

Today I have installed Octave 3.8 with GUI on my Windows 7 machine. Is there a command that will install all the available Octave packages ? Then I would also like to see a list of all the installed packages, and update them at times. So is there a command that checks for updates of all the installed packages ? Thank you.

Answer 1

It looks as if pkg update will update all your installed packages. See the documentation on pkg for more details.

I haven't found a way to install all packages, I am doing them one at a time using pkg install -forge <package_name> , which is a bit tedious. It is also giving me errors when trying to install parallel .

Answer 2

Load/Unload all packages at once by executing the following command

pkg load all
pkg unload all

Answer 3

On Windows/Mac there is an installer on http://octave.sourceforge.net/ . This installs all(?) packages but you have to load them with "pkg load".