Portable Development 101 - 003, Octave 001 (Octave Installation + Jupyter Kernel)

This is the Part 2 of the tutorial for working on a Portable Development

At this point in time, the latest stable version of Octave version is 4.4.0

Here is the Octave Website
https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
Here's a quick link to do the download
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/windows/octave-4.4.0-w64_1.zip
It about 416MB in size, it will take a while to download this,
depending on your internet connections.

After the download, it is a zip file,
so just unzip to a folder next to WinPython.
That completes the basic installation.

Jupyter Kernel Installation

Next, go back to WinPython and click to open WinPython Command Prompt


Install Octave Kernel to WinPython
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pip install octave_kernel
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Go and Edit Environment Variable for your Windows Account.

Under user variables,
Under Path, you need to add a new Path
Example:
C:\dev\Octave-4.4.0-w64\bin

Under user variables,
You need to add a new variables,
The variable name is OCTAVE_EXECUTABLE
The variable value is C:\dev\Octave-4.4.0-w64\bin\octave-cli-4.4.0.exe

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