Re: HPC has octave-2.1.73 for Mac

[Joe Koski]

Henry,

1) Octave and octave-forge distribute files into several /usr/local
locations including /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/share, etc.
etc. You just happened to be looking at one of them. If octave works
correctly, you have a good installation.

2) My preference for the latest gnuplot-4.0 .dmg is

  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2055

scroll down the page, and the first item is a .dmg installer that was put
together by Per Persson.

Joe


on 3/31/06 2:29 PM, Henry F. Mollet at address@hidden wrote:

> Indeed that looked easy but I have two small problems.
> 1. Why do I get installation in usr/local/lib (see below). My Finder window
> was at /usr/local/lib because I wanted to be able to see what happened
> during installation. Installation was so fast there was no time to switch
> from terminal window to Finder window. lib was the only folder in /usr/local
> and I had selected it. For no reason but apparently a mistake.
> 
> Last login: Fri Mar 31 12:26:35 on console
> Welcome to Darwin!
> henry-mollets-imac:~ hfm$ pwd
> /Users/hfm
> henry-mollets-imac:~ hfm$ ls
> Desktop         Library         Music           Public
> Documents       Movies          Pictures        Sites
> henry-mollets-imac:~ hfm$ cd Desktop
> henry-mollets-imac:~/Desktop hfm$ ls
> octave-2.9.4.tar        octave-bin.tar
> henry-mollets-imac:~/Desktop hfm$ sudo tar -xvf
> octave-bin.tar -C /
> 
> CUT
> Password:
> usr/local/
> CUT
> usr/local/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc
> 
> henry-mollets-imac:~/Desktop hfm$ cd /usr/local
> henry-mollets-imac:/usr/local hfm$ ls
> bin     include info    lib     libexec man     share
> henry-mollets-imac:/usr/local hfm$ cd lib
> henry-mollets-imac:/usr/local/lib hfm$ ls
> gcc                     libg2c.a
> libgcc_s.dylib
> libfrtbegin.a           libg2c.dylib
> libiberty.a
> libg2c.0.0.0.dylib      libg2c.la
> libreadline.a
> libg2c.0.dylib          libgcc_s.1.0.dylib
> octave-2.1.73
> henry-mollets-imac:/usr/local/lib hfm$
> 
> 2. I cannot find download for gnuplot for mac:
> http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/download.html gives
> Gnuplot 4.0 for the Macintosh *to be* available at homepage.mac.com/gnuplot/
> (or somewhere else, please wait).
> Then when I click on the above URL, I'm taken to
> http://www.mac.com/account_error.html with the following message:
> Our records show that the account you're attempting to connect to either
> does not exist or is currently inactive.
> Henry
> 
> on 3/31/06 12:02 PM, Vic Norton at address@hidden wrote:
> 
>> Thank you so much, Gaurav!!!
>> 
>> I got my G5 iMac from Apple less than four months ago, but it seems
>> absolutely impossible for me to install a standard distribution of
>> octave due to stuff that has been left out of my system. Your HPC
>> compilation, on the other hand, is a triviality to install. I've been
>> using your 2.1.71 since I bought my new iMac, having wasted countless
>> hours trying to install 2.1.72. Fortunately I didn't waste much time on
>> 2.1.73 before you came to the rescue.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Vic
>> 
>> On 3/31/06, at 11:34 AM -0700, Joe Koski wrote:
>>> Gaurav Khanna has updated his website
>>> 
>>>   http://hpc.sourceforge.net/
>>> 
>>> to include binaries for octave-2.1.73 with octave-forge. Installation
>>> instructions are on the web site.
>>> 
>>> He built the binaries with OS X 10.3.9, to get around the "dispatch"
>>> error seen with binaries built with OS X 10.4.5. This should enable
>>> all Mac users to get the latest octave running. Thanks Gaurav.
>>> 
>>> Joe
>> 
>> 
>> 
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