GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language.

You have to source the following file to get octave in your path:

if csh/tcsh is your shell

source /usr/local/profile.d/octave.csh

if bash is your shell

source /usr/local/profile.d/octave.sh