octave-doctest on AUR (Arch User Repository)

Last updated: February 17,2025

1. Install "octave-doctest" effortlessly via AUR with the help of a helper(YAY)

a. Install YAY (https://github.com/Jguer/yay)


    
        
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                sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git && cd yay && makepkg -si
            
                    
    
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b. Install octave-doctest on Arch using YAY


    
        
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                yay -S
            
                        
                octave-doctest
            
                    
    
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* (Optional) Uninstall octave-doctest on Arch using YAY


    
        
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                yay -Rns
            
                        
                octave-doctest
            
                    
    
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2. Manually Install "octave-doctest" via AUR

a. Ensure you have the base development tools and git installed with:


    
        
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                sudo pacman -S --needed
            
                        
                base-devel git
            
                    
    
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b. Clone octave-doctest's git locally


    
        
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                git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/octave-doctest.git 
            
                        
                ~/octave-doctest
            
                    
    
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c. Go to ~/octave-doctest folder and install it


   
    
        
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                cd
            
                        
                ~/octave-doctest
            
                    
    
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                makepkg -si
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the octave-doctest package on Arch User Repository (AUR)

ID: 1166114
Name: octave-doctest
PackageBaseID: 102472
PackageBase: octave-doctest
Version: 0.7.0-1
Description: The Octave-Forge Doctest package finds specially-formatted blocks of example code within documentation files. It then executes the code and confirms the output is correct. This can be useful as part of a testing framework or simply to ensure that [...]
URL: https://gnu-octave.github.io/packages/doctest/
NumVotes: 1
Popularity: 0
OutOfDate:
Maintainer: pingplug
Submitter: wangjiezhe
FirstSubmitted: 1445911056
LastModified: 1667870954
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/octave-doctest.tar.gz