Re: octave & octave-forge install instructions for Mac OS X 10.4.x

[Henry F. Mollet]

N.B. Perhaps my gnuplot tar package or the expanded package had an error. Is
this possible? Henry

6. I tried installation with the following present:
henry-f-mollets-emac:/tmp hfm$ ls
PDFlib-Lite-6.0.1               objc_sharing_ppc_4294967294
aquaterm_src                    objc_sharing_ppc_501
cs_cache_lock_501               objc_sharing_ppc_92
gd-2.0.33                       readline-5.0
gnuplot-4.0.0                   zlib-1.2.2
libpng-1.2.8

Installation failed. Lots of errors.

7. Then I downloaded the gnuplot tarball again, expanded it, and put it into
/tmp and tried again. Had to use the Finder because I couldn't delete the
directory gnuplot-4.0.0 in the terminal window.

Installation now worked:
henry-f-mollets-emac:/usr/local/bin hfm$ /usr/local/bin/gnuplot

        G N U P L O T
        Version 4.0 patchlevel 0
        last modified Thu Apr 15 14:44:22 CEST 2004
        System: Darwin 8.1.0

Terminal type set to 'unknown'
gnuplot> 

on 7/1/05 7:41 AM, Henry F. Mollet at address@hidden wrote:

> David,
> Installation of octave was successful but not gnuplot. I have the following
> questions and comments.
> Henry
> 
> 1. I installed gnuplot out of order after gfortran instead of after
> readline. I thought it would not matter because gnuplot is a stand-alone
> application. Apparently it does matter or it was something else that caused
> the problem. I cannot provide more details because I did not save the
> terminal output during installation. So much was "flying" by in the terminal
> that I don't know if a particular package was installed correctly or not. I
> was waiting for the prompt to re-appear and then installed the next package.
> According to my notes installation of gnuplot took less than 1 minute but
> this was the same for all packages.
> 
> 2. Apparently the installation has to be done in "one go" because when I
> tried to re-install gnuplot the next day it failed with errors from the
> beginning to the end in the terminal output. After the computer had been
> turned off all the packages in /tmp had disappeared and I had unzipped the
> gnuplot tar ball again and put it into /tmp. However, all the dependency
> packages were missing and therefore installation could not succeeed?
> 
> 3. Dependencies for gnuplot are aquaterm, gd, libpng, PDFlib-lite, readline,
> zlib and X11. I assume that X11 is not need if I'm planning to use aquaterm?
> The other ones need to be present in /tmp before installing gnuplot?
> 
> 4. When installing aquaterm, I had two options: a tarball and a dmg. I used
> the dmp and aquaterm was successfully installed in /Applications. Should I
> have used the tarball because during installation of gnuplot, aquaterm was
> not present in /tmp?
> 
> 5. What would be best to try next?
> 
> 
> on 6/30/05 12:43 AM, David Collett at address@hidden wrote:
> 
>> Hi, everyone.
>> 
>> Version #3 of these OS X 10.4.x install instructions is up, with
>> changes/additions from several people:
>> 
>> http://dcollett.macosx.com/octaveOSX104.html
>> 
>> However, there still may be some incorrect info or items that should
>> be added/deleted.
>> 
>> For those on the list who have been helping us with these
>> instructions and problems, would you please take a look at this list
>> and send any recommended changes/deletions/additions to me?
>> 
>> The more accurate we can make these instructions, the fewer repeat
>> questions that will be posted to the group in the future.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> David Collett
>> 
>> 
>> 
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