Re: HPC has octave-2.1.73 for Mac

[Gaurav Khanna]

Hi

I just updated the link to on the HPC site for the gnuplot binary.  
Thanks for telling me about the dead link ..

Best
Gaurav

On Mar 31, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Joe Koski wrote:

> 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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GAURAV KHANNA
UMass Dartmouth, Physics
(508) 910 6605
http://gravity.phy.umassd.edu/

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