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

[Henry F. Mollet]

Thanks to everybody.

I may not have been entirely clear. After downloading
gnuplot-4.0.0-5-osx4.tar for a *second* time, I was able to install gnuplot.
I was happy to see the gnuplot prompt and figured everything would work out
now (and it does) and posted the update to my questions right away.

> What happens if you
> set term aqua
gnuplot> set term aqua
Terminal type set to 'aqua'
Options are '0 title 'Figure 0' size 846 594 fname 'Times-Roman'  fsize 14'
gnuplot> plot sin(x)  % worked fine using AquaTerm

> or
> set term X11
gnuplot> set term X11
Terminal type set to 'X11'
Options are '0'
gnuplot> dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/local/libexec/gnuplot/4.0/gnuplot_x11
  Reason: image not found
I'm not planning to use X11 at the moment so this can wait.

octave:7> x = randn(5,10);
octave:11> contour (x)  % OK

octave:12> gsplot x     % Nothing but works in 2.1.46 and will become a
different question related to post by Robert Macy asap.

octave:13> contour (x) % OK again, new plot in new AquaTerm window after
closing the old one.

I had used rm -r /tmp/gnuplot-4.0.0 but that was apparently not 'strong"
enough.
I'll use sudo rm -Rf /tmp/gnuplot-4.0.0 next time. Is -Rf the same as -rf?
My Unix System V guide uses -r for recursive.
Henry


on 7/1/05 12:42 PM, Marius Schamschula at address@hidden wrote:

> 
> On Jul 1, 2005, at 1:15 PM, Henry F. Mollet wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Which revisions of these packages? E.g. if the package is labeled
> readline-5.0-4-osx4.tar.gz the revision number is 4.

> 
>> 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.
> 
> Next time try
> 
> sudo rm -Rf /tmp/gnuplot-4.0.0
> 
>> 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>
> 
> What happens if you
> 
> set term aqua
gnuplot> set term aqua
Terminal type set to 'aqua'
Options are '0 title 'Figure 0' size 846 594 fname 'Times-Roman'  fsize 14'
gnuplot> 

> 
> or
> 
> set term X11
> 
>> 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
>>>> 
> 
> Marius
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