---
name: "qtoctave_pkg"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "qtoctave"
version: "0.10.1-4"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/qtoctave_pkg"
---

# qtoctave\_pkg(1)

A Qt front-end for Octave's user-contributed packages

## NAME

qtoctave\_pkg - A Qt front-end for Octave's user-contributed packages

## SYNOPSIS

**qtoctave\_pkg** \[*options*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**QtOctave** is a Qt front-end to GNU Octave. **GNU Octave** is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations, and highly compatible with MATLAB. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically. octave\_pkg is a tool for handling the user installation of user-contributed Octave packages, the so called Octave-Forge repository from SourceForge. It is called internally by toctave

## SEE ALSO

[**qtoctave**(1)](/qtoctave/1.md) [**octave**(1)](/octave/1.md)\
\

## AUTHOR

QtOctave was written by Pedro Luis Lucas Rosado \<acisif@mixmail.com\>.

This manual page was written by Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso \<jordigh@gmail.com\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).