Re: Installing octave & octave-forge on Mac OS X 10.4.x - A No-Fuss Guide REVISED

[Henry F. Mollet]

Thanks. In the meantime I had turned on TinkerTool and found the  
hidden directories.

I had tried what I thought was the same thing:

henry-f-mollets-emac:/usr/local/bin hfm$ octave
-bash: octave: command not found

But apparently not, because (thanks):

henry-f-mollets-emac:/usr/local/bin hfm$ /usr/local/bin/octave
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octave:5> a = rand(2,2,2)
a =
ans(:,:,1) =
  0.10554  0.14355
  0.55794  0.27230
ans(:,:,2) =
  0.89089  0.46272
  0.58187  0.69673

I was beginning to think that the installation was not successful  
because:

lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel      13 Jun 29 10:18 octave -> octave-2.1.71
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   17260 Jun 29 10:18 octave-2.1.71

1. Size of octave-2.1.71 is only ~ 20 kB whereas size of  
octave-2.1.46 installed using Fink was 66.5 MB.
2.  I did not see gnuplot (alias) nor gnuplotx in  the same directory  
whereas it was in the same directory as octave-2.1.46 on the 'old'  
computer using OS X 10.2.8.

octave:1> quit
henry-f-mollets-emac:/usr/local/bin hfm$ /usr/local/bin/gnuplot
-bash: /usr/local/bin/gnuplot: No such file or directory

I did screw up with gnuplot during installation. It was supposed to  
get installed after #16 'readline' but I forgot and installed it  
after #21 'gfortran". I thought it would not matter but apparently it  
does matter. I did check dependencies but I probably have to try again.

Thanks also to Paul K. . I've now set my shell path:
henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ cat .profile
export PATH="$PATH:/Developer/Tools"

I'm hoping that Dave Collett  will add all this to his instructions.  
I know I've gone thru all of this once before on the tcsh (now bash)  
but I just cannot remember all the things that need to be done to get  
octave running.
Henry




On Jun 29, 2005, at 5:29 PM, Marius Schamschula wrote:

> Henry,
>
> Just type
>
> /usr/local/bin/octave
>
> in the Terminal.
>
> If this works (it should) then you'll need to check your shell  
> configuration again.
>
> To see hidden directories in the Finder user the <Command> <Shift>  
> <G> keyboard shortcut. Type in the path, and presto you see the  
> Folder.
>
> On Jun 29, 2005, at 7:09 PM, Henry F. Mollet wrote:
>
>
> > Thanks. It was not and I've added it as ":/usr/local/bin" up front  
> > but it still would not work. I saw that I had an extra " : " in  
> > the LOADPATH on the "0ld" computer with 2.1.46.
> >
> > I admit that I'm now totally lost in the Finder of Tiger as I  
> > cannot find the directory "/usr/local/bin" whereas it's clearly  
> > present as per below and shows that octave (presumably alias for  
> > octave-2.1.71) is present . Is it a hidden directory and do I need  
> > TinkerTool to see it in the Finder?
> > Henry
> >
> > henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ cat .octaverc
> > LOADPATH = [ ':/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/libexec/octave/2.1.71/ 
> > site/oct/powerpc-apple-darwin8.1.0/octave-forge:/usr/local/share/ 
> > octave/2.1.71/site/m/octave-forge//:', LOADPATH ];
> >    EXEC_PATH = [ '/usr/local/libexec/octave/2.1.71/site/exec/ 
> > powerpc-apple-darwin8.1.0:', EXEC_PATH ];
> >
> > henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ octave
> > -bash: octave: command not found
> >
> > henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ cd /usr/local/bin
> > henry-f-mollets-emac:/usr/local/bin hfm$ ls
> > cut
> > gdparttopng                             octave
> > gdtopng                                 octave-2.1.71
> > cut
> > henry-f-mollets-emac:/usr/local/bin hfm$
> Marius
> --
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>
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