Re: Installing Octave using FinkCommander

[Henry F. Mollet]

Thanks. I'm back in business but do not really understand what's going on.
The second time around I was more careful and picked option (2) below.
Instead of 31 packages, as during first unsuccessful installation with
option (1), only 10 additional packages were installed.

Second installation run to completion in about 6 hrs but I was not sure what
would happen with regard to graphics. When I run a script which does some
matrix calculations and then uses:
% Trying a graph
gset term aqua (1) 
It worked exactly as before and AquaTerm was called (I guess by gnuplot) and
it graphed what I expected as before. I know that AquaTerm (but not octave
nor gnuplot) was installed during unsuccessful first installation on
11/28/03.  

So my question remains: Why should a later Fink package of octave (i.e.
GNU Octave, version 2.1.46 (powerpc-apple-darwin6.8)
out of the blue need xfree86 when my earlier package 2.1.36 did not require
it. At that time (one year ago), I had downloaded xfree86 but was told that
I did not need it.
 
Dec 02 2003 Reinstall
Information about 1324 packages read in 11 seconds.
fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency. The
candidates:
(1)     system-xfree86: Placeholder package for manually installed XFree86
(2)     xfree86-base: XFree86 libraries, utilities, clients and data

Pick one: [1] 
The following package will be reinstalled:
 octave
The following 10 additional packages will be installed:
 fftw fftw-shlibs gnuplot hdf hdf5 hdf5-bin hdf5-shlibs texinfo xfree86-base
 xfree86-base-shlibs
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
curl -f -L -O http://distfiles.opendarwin.org/X4211src.tar.bz2
....cut....
Henry

on 12/2/03 12:27 PM, Gavin Jin at address@hidden wrote:

> 
> 
> According to Fink, system-xfree86-4.2-13 is just a place holder for
> other X11 like Apple's.
> So, if you installed system-xfree86,  you have to have some other
> distribution of X11.
> 
> Maybe you need to install or reinstall Apple's X11, along with the X11
> SDK, and the latest development tools
> for 10.2 from Apple.
> 
> 
> 
> On Dec 1, 2003, at 7:49 PM, Henry F. Mollet wrote:
> 
>> 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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>>>> 
>>> Gavin Jin
>>> 150 Castilian Dr, Santa Barbarba
>>> CA 93110
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 805-961-3693
>> 
>> 
> Gavin Jin
> 150 Castilian Dr, Santa Barbarba
> CA 93110
> 
> 
> 805-961-3693



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