markuskramer/octave3 repository overview

Allows you to easily run octave version 3. For instance, this is useful if you're on Andrew Ng's machine learning course. Newer versions of Ubuntu only include octave 4 and it's a hassle to compile it yourself.

Run it like this: sudo docker run -i -t --rm
-e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY -u joe -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix:ro
-v $HOME/ml:/home/joe
--name="octave" markuskramer/octave3

Open another console and enter "xhost +". After using octave use "xhost -" to restore strict access policy.

Sources:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25281992/alternatives-to-ssh-x11-forwarding-for-docker-containers⁠