pkg install on octave

Octave has many Matlab compatible packages, but they need to be installed and loaded using
pkg Load pkgname
and similarly
pkg unLoad pkgname
This actually adds it to octave's path.

But before that, the packages have to be installed. On my Mint Linux 18 install, had install liboctave-dev first using apt-get and then inside octave,
pkg install -forge -verbose signal
pkg install -forge -verbose control
etc.