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When installing oct2py library on Python, I was required to have GNU Octave installed in my path, in another word, setx PATH "%PATH%; where the folder has the file “octave.exe”.

However, I can not find the octave.exe after installing octave using the installation packages released in https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/#install and I have tried all the three installation packages for Windows-64.

Thanks for your help!

Wiles Dai
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The installation of Octave on Windows is rather odd, and Chocolatey guys also had a lot of difficulties with it. Unfortunately, the ESI people are also not very supportive of the project as it seems they are using the workforce to develop in house proprietary software...

Anyway if you try to locate the executable from the shortcut file in the folder 

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\GNU Octave 5.1.0.0

via open file location in the right-click context menu, it misguides you to wscript executable in C:\Windows\System32 folder. However, the actual installation folder is in the C root (usually this should be the default). The path to executables should be

C:\Octave\Octave-5.1.0.0\mingw64\bin

and

C:\Octave\Octave-5.1.0.0\mingw32\bin

for 64bit and 32bit versions of octave-cli.exe and octave-gui.exe respectively.

Foad
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