Re: Newbie Q: Launching in OSX

[Marius Schamschula]

Gregory, Jordi,

Aquaterm is for displaying plots. You need to us Apple's Terminal or X11's xterm for the CLI.

Note that you will need to put the path to the octave binary into your PATH. If you are using bash as your shell, you'll need to add something like

PATH=$PATH:/path/to/octave/bin

export PATH

in your ~/.bash_profile file.

The actual /path/to/octave/bin depends on which octave distribution you have installed:

My (hmug.org) and Guarav's (hpc.sf.net) builds are in /usr/local/bin

MacPorts in /opt/local/bin

Fink  in /sw/bin

The do a 

bash --login

(first time only - the file is normally read when you first open the Terminal, in X11 you need to do this every time unless you tweak Apple's plist)

and type

octave

On Jun 26, 2007, at 5:25 PM, Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso wrote:

On 25/06/07, Gregory <address@hidden> wrote:

I downloaded the "easy to install" binaries for Octave from http://

hpc.sourceforge.net/#octave, but don't know what to do next to get it

to run.  I'm a Matlab user, but not good with programs that don't

have a clear icon for me to double-click on.

Wild guess, open an Aquaterm and type "octave"?

Er, Aquaterms are installed by default on Macs, aren't they? If not,

there must be another terminal emulation program, since MacOS X *is* a

Unix, even if it tries hard to hide this fact.

I've had very brief experience with MacOS X, so perhaps I shouldn't be

attempting to answer your question.

As far as an interface to Octave, there's QtOctave, which I hear is

planned to be released as a comfortable MacOS X binary soon. In the

meantime, you could compile it yourself, but if opening a terminal and

typing a program's name is unfamiliar territory, then perhaps

compiling a program will be even more unfamiliar.

HTH,

- Jordi G. H.

Marius

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