Re: Problems in installing Octave General package

[Carlo de Falco]

On 14 Oct 2009, at 18:32, Guido Walter Pettinari wrote:

> Hi,
>
> this is my first post to this mailing list. I am a PhD student in
> Cosmology and I often use Octave. I really appreciate it as a
> convenient alternative to Matlab.
>
> I am performing some intensive number crunching hence I would like to
> use both CPUs of my MacBook Pro, which runs Mac Os X 10.6, aka Snow
> Leopard. I therefore downloaded the Octave General package from Octave
> Forge to make use of the parcellfun function for parallel computing 
> (http://octave.sourceforge.net/general/index.html
> ) .
>
> I tried to install the package with the usual command:
> pkg install general-1.1.3.tar.gz
> but I got a lot of errors, mainly complains about dynamical libraries
> not being of the required architecture (please see the output below).
>
> As a side note, I installed Octave from the Octave.app project 
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20MacOSX%20Binary
> ), hence I did not compile it on my machine.
>
> Thank you for any help!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Guido Walter Pettinari
>
> P.S. Can I attach text files or PDFs to my email while sending it to
> the mailing list?

Guido,
Another user posted recently a link to a procedure that apparently makes
mkoctfile work on Snow Leopard, see:

http://www.nabble.com/Octave.app-3.2.3-for-Mac-OS-X-10.4.x-and-10.5.x-td25727982.html#a25798474

I only have Os X 10.5 on my machines so I cannot check myself whether  
it helps,
if it does work for you please report back to the list

c.