GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides capabilities for the numerical solution of linear and nonlinear problems, and for performing other numerical experiments. It also provides extensive graphics capabilities for data visualization and manipulation. Octave is normally used through its interactive command line interface, but it can also be used to write non-interactive programs. The Octave language is quite similar to Matlab so that most programs are easily portable.

CentOS安装octave，使用源码包安装会出很多问题，使用yum安装简单容易。

# vim /etc/yum.repos.d/naulinux-school.repo

[naulinux-school]
name=NauLinux School
baseurl=http://downloads.naulinux.ru/pub/NauLinux/6.2/$basearch/sites/School/RPMS/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://downloads.naulinux.ru/pub/NauLinux/RPM-GPG-KEY-linux-ink

# yum --enablerepo=naulinux-school install octave*
# yum install hdf5*

# ln -s /usr/lib64/mpich2/lib/libhdf5.so.6.0.4 /usr/lib64/libhdf5.so.6