In openSUSE it's easy to install Octave. All you have to do is add the Pacman repository, search for Octave, and mark it for installation. For some, people the base version of Octave is enough for what they need to do, but sometimes additional packages are necessary for more specialized tasks. For example, I need the signals package do do things like finding correlations or designing filters. Unfortunately, in openSUSE adding the packages is a little bit trickier than installing the program itself. This tutorial will show you how to install additional packages. It assues that you already have Octave installed. At the time of writing I am using openSuse 11.2 and Octave 3.2.4.

1. Install Additional Linux Packages
2. Download Octave Packages
3. Install Octave Packages