Re: Octave.app for MacOSX released

[Henry F. Mollet]

Not sure how helpful this is but I read other posting regarding
octave.app/gnuplot for MacOSX on this thread.

1) I had said that I had an almost clean HD apart from re-installed OS
10.4.10 and .octaverc. I did not remember that I had also installed Octave
2.1.73, gnuplot 4.0, and AquaTerm on this older computer. However, path were
not yet available and I had to 'activate' octave by using
/usr/local/bin/octave.

2) As described below I had installed octave.app (2.9.12) without any
difficulties but did not test if I could also plot and assumed I could not
until installing gnuplot 4.2 and Aquaterm.

3) Today, after realizing that I had gnuplot 4.0 and Aquaterm already
installed, I copied from new computer (which has Octave 2.1.71) all the
.files that I might need (.bash_profile; .bashrc; .gnuplot; .octaverc (to
make sure I used the same as on newer eMac); .xinitrc (for good measure) and
tried a plot. Worked just fine:
Last login: Fri Jul  6 18:56:13 on ttyp1
'/Applications/octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'
Welcome to Darwin!
 [~] -bash-2.05b 141$
'/Applications/octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'
GNU Octave, version 2.9.12
Copyright (C) 2007 John W. Eaton and others.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTIBILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.

Octave was configured for "powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.1".

Additional information about Octave is available at http://www.octave.org.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html

Report bugs to <address@hidden> (but first, please read
http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to write a helpful report).

For information about changes from previous versions, type `news'.

warning: LOADPATH is no longer a built-in variable; please read the NEWS
file or type `news' for details
error: `LOADPATH' undefined near line 1 column 168
error: evaluating assignment expression near line 1, column 10
error: near line 1 of file `/Users/hfm/.octaverc'
octave-2.9.12:1> x = linspace(0,pi,100);
octave-2.9.12:2> plot (x,sin(x))
octave-2.9.12:3> plot (x,sin(x)) # same  plot again
octave-2.9.12:4> x = rand (3)

4) It appears that I can use versions 2.1.73 and 2.9.12 in different
terminal windows without any difficulties using same gnuplot (4.0)/aquaterm.
I'm planning to update gnuplot asap.
Henry





on 7/4/07 7:45 PM, Henry F. Mollet at address@hidden wrote:

> Many thanks, worked like a charm on "old" iMac (400 MHz PowerPC G3) with
> almost clean HD with updated Mac OS X v 10.4.10. I copied and pasted below
> to computer I'm using presently with older version of Octave.
> 
> I said *almost* clean HD because I did find an old .octaverc file which
> needs to be updated.
> Henry 
> 
> 
> Last login: Wed Jul  4 19:11:07 on ttyp1
> Welcome to Darwin!
> '/Applications/octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'
> henry-mollets-imac:~ hfm$
> '/Applications/octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'
> GNU Octave, version 2.9.12
> Copyright (C) 2007 John W. Eaton and others.
> This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
> There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTIBILITY or
> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.
> 
> Octave was configured for "powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.1".
> 
> Additional information about Octave is available at http://www.octave.org.
> 
> Please contribute if you find this software useful.
> For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html
> 
> Report bugs to <address@hidden> (but first, please read
> http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to write a helpful report).
> 
> For information about changes from previous versions, type `news'.
> 
> warning: LOADPATH is no longer a built-in variable; please read the NEWS
> file or type `news' for details
> error: `LOADPATH' undefined near line 1 column 168
> error: evaluating assignment expression near line 1, column 10
> error: near line 1 of file `/Users/hfm/.octaverc'
> octave-2.9.12:1> x=[1,2;3,4]
> x =
> 
>    1   2
>    3   4
> 
> octave-2.9.12:2> 
> 
> 
> 
> on 7/4/07 12:08 PM, Thomas Treichl at address@hidden wrote:
> 
>> Hi everybody,
>> 
>> months ago we were talking about an Octave binary release for Mac OS X users
>> at 
>> one of the Octave mailing-lists. Now time has come to present a first release
>> candidate of Octave.app. Users that are interested in this ready-to-run
>> binary
>> package can download a compressed *.dmg image at
>> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2888 for either PPC or
>> i386. The minimum system requirements for Octave.app are PPC OS X version
>> 10.3
>> or i386 OS X version 10.4.
>> 
>> NOTE: If you're a long-term user of Octave or a beginner in any case please
>> read 
>> the Readme.html file that comes with your *.dmg. Octave.app has some known
>> limitations but also has some features that you might want to use. We also do
>> know that there may be further problems at least with PPC 10.3 OS X versions
>> (because it is a cross-compiled product of my own i386 Mac) that are not
>> documented in the Readme.html file and we strongly need help from everybody
>> fixing these bugs (so please give it a try looking for what is going wrong on
>> your system). Also note that we packed the available octave-2.9.12 sources
>> and
>> not a current CVS snapshot ie. there may be problems in Octave.app that have
>> already been reported at one of Octave's mailing-lists and also have already
>> been fixed and can be found in the current CVS.
>> 
>> Finally I'd like to say,' thanks everybody who make Octave and it's packages
>> even possible' and further I'd especially like to thank Paul for answering
>> tons 
>> of my spam I sent to him, giving me motivation to not break during this quest
>> and finally hacking some code of the build-scripts that make a PPC version
>> generally available.
>> 
>> That's it from my side,
>> 
>>    Thomas
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