Re: Installing Octave using FinkCommander

[Henry F. Mollet]

Thank you and apologies for incomplete info. I'm still using Mac OSX
V.10.2.8 (not 10.3 Panther) and was under the impression that
Fink/FinkCommander would lead me to latest source code.

Whereas I noticed that an info and a patch file for 2.1.50-11 were
downloaded during the failed installation, it was only octave-2.1.46.tar.gz
that was downloaded but then apparently not installed because of alleged
problem with package system-xfree86-4.2-13. (I don't need xfree86 because my
previous version of Octave, 2.1.35, installed 1 yr ago using Fink, worked
fine using Gnuplot in combination with AquaTerm).

I had a look at http://homepage.mac.com/chibaf/math/macosx/install/
which looks promising and I'll work on it as soon as the link to Octave
loads in my browser. However, this URL appears to have conflicting
information. It first mentions what's needed (OS 10.2 or later, Developer,
AND FINK). Then it says to install g77, which I suspect is not needed if
FINK was installed?) and then it gives
% .configure
% make
% sudo make install
instructions for some of the programs (e.g. Gnuplot and Octave with Atlas
and fftw) implying that we are not using Fink.

Similar to the current thread on installation of Octave on PC, the
instructions apparently are never quite clear for many on Mac or PC to get
Octave running, so one could use this great program without major
difficulties to begin with.
Henry




on 12/1/03 4:51 PM, Gavin Jin at address@hidden wrote:

> The Fink developers were still porting applications to 10.3 last time I
> checked, and
> they still recommended binary installation until they stabilize the
> packages.
> 
> That supported binary  is older than 2.1.46.
> 
> So I  updated  mine with Darwinport
> 
> [gavin-unix:myWork/ruby/libpcap-ruby] gjin% octave --version
> GNU Octave, version 2.1.50 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.0.0).
> Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 John W.
> Eaton.
> This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
> There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTIBILITY or
> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> 
> Report bugs to <address@hidden>.
> [gavin-unix:myWork/ruby/libpcap-ruby] gjin% port search octave
> octave          math/octave     2.1.50          a Matlab-like
> environment for numerical analysis
> [gavin-unix:myWork/ruby/libpcap-ruby] gjin%
> 
> 
> 
> I also downloaded the latest source code and followed the instructions
> on http://homepage.mac.com/chibaf/math/macosx/install/
> without any problem.
> 
> 
> 
> On Dec 1, 2003, at 2:18 PM, Henry F. Mollet wrote:
> 
>> I know this is a Fink or FinkCommander problem but I'm hoping a Mac
>> user on
>> this list will be able to help.
>> 
>> I've tried to upgrade Octave to the latest available version on Fink
>> and
>> failed and deleted previous version of Octave by mistake.
>> 
>> I've tried to install octave 2.1.46-1 using FinkCommander and
>> after 6.5 hours of compilation, the installation failed:
>> ### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1
>> Failed: can't install package system-xfree86-4.2-13
>> 
>> I did not anticipate xfree86 was needed and I may have made a mistake
>> with
>> regard to any options presented for this during installation.
>> 
>> A little checking showed that
>> SW/Applications/AquaTerm (application) was present/installed and could
>> be
>> opened. The tar.gz files for both octave and gnuplot were present in
>> SW/SRC
>> but neither application was installed.
>> 
>> Before trying re-installation, I'm hoping for tip. Thanks
>> Henry
>> 
>> 
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