Re: Need help on octave - simple plot

[marco atzeri]

On 2/27/2012 3:54 AM, tandiwijaya wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm newbie, and just downloaded the octave 3.4.0 in Max OS X 10.7.3.
>
> Im trying to do a simple plot and found the following error message:
>
> code starts here:
> =========
> octave-3.4.0:1>  x=[1 2]
> x =
>
>     1   2
>
> octave-3.4.0:2>  y=[3 4]
> y =
>
>     3   4
>
> octave-3.4.0:3>  plot(x)
> error: popen2: popen2 (child): unable to start process -- Operation not
> permitted
> error: called from:
> error:
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__gnuplot_open_stream__.m
> at line 30, column 44
> error:
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__gnuplot_drawnow__.m
> at line 72, column 19
> sh: /Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot: /bin/sh: bad
> interpreter: Operation not permitted
> error: `unset' undefined near line 4 column 1
> warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
> =========
> code stopped here
>
> Please help how how to solve this problem.
>
> Thank You
>
> Tandi.

have you looked at
http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_MacOS_X_Bundle

instructions ?

Regards