Have chosen to try using GNU Octave as an alternative to MATLAB for my Control of Mobile Robots course (because the latest version of MATLAB looks a bit pricey).
I'm trying it on a Fedora 17 (64-bit) machine that was already available.
I initially installed the following packages:
$ rpm -qa |grep octave qtoctave-0.10.1-11.fc17.x86_64 octave-3.6.3-2.fc17.x86_64 octave-doc-3.6.3-2.fc17.noarch