Psychtoolbox-3 Download and Installation for Linux
Obsolete instructions:
The regular installation method works too nowadays. Go there.
Installing Psychtoolbox on Linux is different from Mac OS X or Windows, as our downloader and instaler isn't yet adapted for Linux. You must have a running Linux system and the ability to install new software on it. Depending on your Linux distribution you may experience small glitches when trying to install the toolbox the first time. Search the Psychtoolbox forum for some description of work-arounds. Once successfully installed, you should enjoy a well working toolbox.
Requirements
You will need to install Subversion and either Matlab or Octave version 3.2. For most modern Linux systems, this is pretty easy, but you must either have administrative access or you will have to ask an administrator to install the software for you. The Octave webpage also links to addon packages called Octave - Forge. These add additional useful toolboxes and improvements to Octave.
Subversion and Octave are available through the package management app of any modern Linux distribution. Matlab ist usually installed through a script from the root of the installation CDs.
Get the Toolbox
To download Psychtoolbox you will use the Subversion tool svn to do a check-out of the Psychtoolbox source repository. To do this, open up a terminal window and type the following commands:
$ cd ~ # or some other destination, like your toolbox folder
$ svn co http://psychtoolbox-3.googlecode.com/svn/beta/Psychtoolbox Psychtoolbox
$ svn co http://psychtoolbox-3.googlecode.com/svn/beta/Psychtoolbox Psychtoolbox
Finally, you have to start Octave or Matlab, change the working directory to the new Psychtoolbox folder, and
