Package management in Octave

We will use the Octave package called statistics as an example. First, we find the ZIP file for the package at https://octave.sourceforge.io/statistics/, as shown in the following screenshot:

Second, we set up our path to the directory containing the previously downloaded ZIP file. Third, we issue pkg install package_name, as shown:

> pkg install statistics-1.3.0.tar.gz 

For information about changes from previous versions of the statistics package, run news statistics. To get more information about the new version, we type news statistics as mentioned previously:

To load and unload a package, we have the following ...

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