How do you run Octave in Jupyter?

Question

I want to run Octave in JupyterLab on a M1 Macbook. I have installed JupyterLab using pip and Octave-6.3.0-beta1.dmg file as per the prerequisites.

I have also installed Octave kernel using pip install octave_kernel --user .
Now I am somewhat stuck. This documentation says,
"We require the Octave executable to run the kernel. Add that executable's directory to the PATH environment variable or use the OCTAVE_EXECUTABLE to point to the executable itself."
Can someone help me with this? What am I supposed to type in the terminal?

Answer 1

PATH is an "environment variable" . It basically makes anything that runs in your computer know few software and their location. That way, when you do eg python my_code.py it knows what python is.

Read the link above too to learn how to add stuff to PATH , in your case, the location of Octave. The location should be something like C:\Octave\Octave-5.1.0.0\mingw64\bin , where the folder contains octave.bat , for a windows machine. Just find wherever Octave is in you MAC.

There is another similar question about this: How to add Octave to PATH environment variable in Mac Sierra?