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Re: additional packages


From: Henry F. Mollet
Subject: Re: additional packages
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:28:28 -0800
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It might be a lot easier to install compressed disc images *.dmg for Mac.
Both ppc and intel versions are available
See
http://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/2007-December/007251.html .
And then http://octave.sourceforge.net./ .
Henry 


on 2/28/08 12:40 PM, Ben Abbott at address@hidden wrote:

> 
> On Thursday, February 28, 2008, at 03:15PM, "jennifer jentzsch"
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> a few days ago i just started using octave in addition to gnuplot in
>> order to solve some integrals to calculate a shielding for a new
>> physical experiment at our chair. i am working on an ibook g4 with
>> Mac Os 10.4. Via fink i installed octave 2.1.71, the only available
>> version. after many hours of trying to adjust the errors:
>> 
>> error: 'print' undefined
>> error: 'quadl' undefined
>> 
>> i found out that these functions are not part of octave-2.1.71. Can i
>> install some additional packages subsequently? i know that there is
>> also a version 3.0.0 but this one is not available via fink and i do
>> not want to download the binary via sourceforge....
>> 
>> i hope you can help me!
>> greetings
>> jennifer jentzsch
>> experimental physics 4
>> universtity of technology dortmund
> 
> Hi Jennifer,
> 
> Regarding Fink, if you add the unstable branch you'll have access to version
> Octave 3.0.0.
> 
> If you run "fink configure" you'll be able to turn the unstable branch on (I
> recommend you do this since nearly everything I find useful is there, and I
> don't find any of it particularly "unstable").
> 
> Once you've enabled the unstable branch, do a "fink selfupdate; fink index;
> fink scanpackages"
> 
> Then you can run "fink install octave" and in an hour or so you'll have Octave
> 3.0.0 running.
> 
> Ben
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