Notes on GNU Linux installation

Installing from your distribution

The easiest way to install the Symbolic package is using your distribution-provided packages and your distribution's package manager.

• Fedora: "sudo dnf install octave-symbolic"
• Debian or Ubuntu: "sudo apt-get install octave-symbolic"
• Others, consult your distribution's package manager.

Installation from the GNU Octave package manager "pkg"

If you need a newer version than what is provided by your distribution, you can try "pkg install -forge symbolic" from within Octave. This will require certain dependencies, namely a recent version of SymPy.

TODO: add suggestions about how you do this.