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title: Install nelson on Linux | Snap Store
description: Get the latest version of nelson for Linux - Let's Nelson! matrix language
  for engineering and scientific applications
url: https://snapcraft.io/nelson
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# nelson

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latest/stable 1.17.0

Install latest/stable of nelson

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**Install using the command line**

```
sudo snap install nelson
```

Don't have snapd? [Get set up for snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

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### Package name

* nelson

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### License

* GPL-3.0-or-later

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### Last updated

* 31 May 2026 - latest/stable

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### Websites

* [nelson-lang.github.io](https://nelson-lang.github.io/nelson-website/ "https://nelson-lang.github.io/nelson-website/")

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### Contact

* [nelson.numerical.computation@gmail.com](mailto:nelson.numerical.computation@gmail.com "mailto:nelson.numerical.computation@gmail.com")

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### Source code

* [github.com/nelson-lang/nelson](https://github.com/nelson-lang/nelson "https://github.com/nelson-lang/nelson")

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### Report a bug

* [github.com/nelson-lang/nelson/issues](https://github.com/nelson-lang/nelson/issues "https://github.com/nelson-lang/nelson/issues")

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/nelson#report-snap-modal)

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* [Description](https://snapcraft.io/nelson#tab-description)
* [Security](https://snapcraft.io/nelson#tab-security)

#### Let's Nelson! matrix language for engineering and scientific applications

Nelson is an matrix/array programming language providing a powerful open computing environment for engineering and scientific applications using modern C/C++ libraries (Boost, Eigen, …) and others state of art numerical libraries.
It has sophisticated data structures (including cell, struct, linear systems, …), an interpreter and a high level programming language.
Nelson has been developed to be an open/modular system where an user can define these own data types and operations on these data types by using overload.
Syntax is very similar to GNU Octave or MATLAB® so that most programs are easily portable.

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## Install nelson on your Linux distribution

Choose your Linux distribution to get detailed installation instructions. If yours is not shown, get more details on the [installing snapd documentation](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

[### Arch Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/nelson/arch)

[### CentOS](https://snapcraft.io/install/nelson/centos)

[### Debian](https://snapcraft.io/install/nelson/debian)

[### elementary OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/nelson/elementary)

[### Fedora](https://snapcraft.io/install/nelson/fedora)

[### KDE Neon](https://snapcraft.io/install/nelson/kde-neon)

[### Kubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/nelson/kubuntu)

[### Manjaro](https://snapcraft.io/install/nelson/manjaro)

[### Pop!\_OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/nelson/pop)

[### openSUSE](https://snapcraft.io/install/nelson/opensuse)

[### Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/nelson/rhel)

[### Ubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/nelson/ubuntu)

[### Raspberry Pi](https://snapcraft.io/install/nelson/raspbian)