I've tried installing it twice now. The basic procedure is I go into shell 
(Ctrl+F1), then login as either sage or root (1st time I used sage, 2nd as 
root), then run:

yum install octave texlive

clicking "Y" (for yes) when prompted. 

On Monday, 27 April 2015 04:26:26 UTC+10, vdelecroix wrote:
>
> Then octave is not installed... how did you try to install it? 
>
> On 26/04/15 20:20, Brenton wrote: 
> > Gives 
> > -bash: octave: command not found. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Monday, 27 April 2015 04:17:06 UTC+10, vdelecroix wrote: 
> >> 
> >> It seems that octave is not installed in your virtual machine. Did you 
> >> install it? If it is so, try in a console 
> >> 
> >>      octave --version 
> >> 
> >> Vincent 
> >> 
> >> On 26/04/15 20:15, Brenton wrote: 
> >>> Traceback (most recent call last): 
> >>>     File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> 
> >>>     File "_sage_input_6.py", line 10, in <module> 
> >>>       exec compile(u'open("___code___.py","w").write("# -*- coding: 
> utf-8 
> >>> -*-\\n" + 
> >>> 
> >> 
> _support_.preparse_worksheet_cell(base64.b64decode("b2N0YXZlKDEp"),globals())+"\\n");
>  
>
> >> 
> >>> execfile(os.path.abspath("___code___.py")) 
> >>>     File "", line 1, in <module> 
> >>> 
> >>>     File "/tmp/tmpgJkMld/___code___.py", line 3, in <module> 
> >>>       exec compile(u'octave(_sage_const_1 ) 
> >>>     File "", line 1, in <module> 
> >>> 
> >>>     File 
> >>> 
> >> 
> "/home/sage/sage-6.6/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/interface.py"
>  
>
> >> 
> >>> , line 172, in __call__ 
> >>>       return self._coerce_from_special_method(x) 
> >>>     File 
> >>> 
> >> 
> "/home/sage/sage-6.6/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/interface.py"
>  
>
> >> 
> >>> , line 198, in _coerce_from_special_method 
> >>>       return (x.__getattribute__(s))(self) 
> >>>     File "sage/structure/sage_object.pyx", line 778, in 
> sage.structure. 
> >>> sage_object.SageObject._octave_ 
> >> (build/cythonized/sage/structure/sage_object 
> >>> .c:9047) 
> >>>     File "sage/structure/sage_object.pyx", line 593, in 
> sage.structure. 
> >>> sage_object.SageObject._interface_ (build/cythonized/sage/structure/ 
> >>> sage_object.c:5154) 
> >>>     File 
> >>> 
> >> 
> "/home/sage/sage-6.6/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/interface.py"
>  
>
> >> 
> >>> , line 170, in __call__ 
> >>>       return cls(self, x, name=name) 
> >>>     File 
> >>> 
> >> 
> "/home/sage/sage-6.6/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/expect.py"
>  
>
> >> 
> >>> , line 1305, in __init__ 
> >>>       self._name = parent._create(value, name=name) 
> >>>     File 
> >>> 
> >> 
> "/home/sage/sage-6.6/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/interface.py"
>  
>
> >> 
> >>> , line 360, in _create 
> >>>       self.set(name, value) 
> >>>     File 
> >>> 
> >> 
> "/home/sage/sage-6.6/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/octave.py"
>  
>
> >> 
> >>> , line 300, in set 
> >>>       out = self.eval(cmd) 
> >>>     File 
> >>> 
> >> 
> "/home/sage/sage-6.6/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/expect.py"
>  
>
> >> 
> >>> , line 1222, in eval 
> >>>       for L in code.split('\n') if L != '']) 
> >>>     File 
> >>> 
> >> 
> "/home/sage/sage-6.6/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/expect.py"
>  
>
> >> 
> >>> , line 819, in _eval_line 
> >>>       self._start() 
> >>>     File 
> >>> 
> >> 
> "/home/sage/sage-6.6/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/octave.py"
>  
>
> >> 
> >>> , line 285, in _start 
> >>>       Expect._start(self) 
> >>>     File 
> >>> 
> >> 
> "/home/sage/sage-6.6/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/expect.py"
>  
>
> >> 
> >>> , line 448, in _start 
> >>>       raise RuntimeError("unable to start %s" % self.name()) 
> >>> TypeError: unable to start octave 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> On Monday, 27 April 2015 04:12:56 UTC+10, vdelecroix wrote: 
> >>>> 
> >>>> In a sage worksheet what happens if you evaluate a cell with 
> >>>> 
> >>>>        octave(1) 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Vincent 
> >>>> 
> >>>> On 26/04/15 20:01, Brenton wrote: 
> >>>>> Here it is: 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Traceback (most recent call last): 
> >>>>>      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> 
> >>>>>      File "_sage_input_4.py", line 10, in <module> 
> >>>>>        exec compile(u"print _support_.syseval(octave, u'pi', 
> >>>> __SAGE_TMP_DIR__)" 
> >>>>> + '\n', '', 'single') 
> >>>>>      File "", line 1, in <module> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>      File 
> >>>>> 
> >>>> 
> >> 
> "/home/sage/sage-6.6/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sagenb-0.11.4-py2.7.egg/sagenb/misc/support.py"
>  
>
> >> 
> >>>> 
> >>>>> , line 438, in syseval 
> >>>>>        return system.eval(cmd, sage_globals, locals = sage_globals) 
> >>>>>      File 
> >>>>> 
> >>>> 
> >> 
> "/home/sage/sage-6.6/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/expect.py"
>  
>
> >> 
> >>>> 
> >>>>> , line 1222, in eval 
> >>>>>        for L in code.split('\n') if L != '']) 
> >>>>>      File 
> >>>>> 
> >>>> 
> >> 
> "/home/sage/sage-6.6/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/expect.py"
>  
>
> >> 
> >>>> 
> >>>>> , line 819, in _eval_line 
> >>>>>        self._start() 
> >>>>>      File 
> >>>>> 
> >>>> 
> >> 
> "/home/sage/sage-6.6/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/octave.py"
>  
>
> >> 
> >>>> 
> >>>>> , line 285, in _start 
> >>>>>        Expect._start(self) 
> >>>>>      File 
> >>>>> 
> >>>> 
> >> 
> "/home/sage/sage-6.6/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/interfaces/expect.py"
>  
>
> >> 
> >>>> 
> >>>>> , line 448, in _start 
> >>>>>        raise RuntimeError("unable to start %s" % self.name()) 
> >>>>> RuntimeError: unable to start octave 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> On Monday, 27 April 2015 03:35:40 UTC+10, vdelecroix wrote: 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Could you click on the left where the error message appear and 
> >>>>>> copy/paste here the full traceback of the error. 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> On 26/04/15 19:23, Brenton wrote: 
> >>>>>>> I managed to install both pieces of software, although oddly now 
> >> Sage 
> >>>>>>> notebook is having trouble starting octave & doesn't recognize 
> that 
> >>>>>>> PDFLatex has been installed. I ran these commands through the 
> >>>> terminal: 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> sudo "yum install octave texlive" 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> as Sage 6.6 seems to run through Cent OS even though I set the OS 
> >> for 
> >>>>>> the 
> >>>>>>> virtual machine (VM) to Ubuntu (32 bit). I then closed the VM and 
> >>>>>> re-opened 
> >>>>>>> & re-ran these commands. Attached is a screenshot showing my exact 
> >>>>>> errors 
> >>>>>>> in sage notebook relating to PDFLatex & Octave. 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> On Monday, 27 April 2015 01:50:28 UTC+10, Brenton wrote: 
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> Hi, 
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> I am new to VirtualBox but I have Sage running running now 
> through 
> >> it 
> >>>>>> but 
> >>>>>>>> I haven't a clue how to get octave & pdflatex installed on this 
> >>>> virtual 
> >>>>>>>> machine. The OS of the virtual machine on which Sage is running 
> is 
> >>>>>> Ubuntu 
> >>>>>>>> 32 bit. My PC is Windows 7 64 bit. I have Octave installed on my 
> >> host 
> >>>>>> OS 
> >>>>>>>> (i.e., the Win 7 64 bit) and it is in my PATH environment 
> variable. 
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> Thanks for your time, 
> >>>>>>>> Brenton 
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>> 
> >> 
> > 
>

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