Subject: Re: problem setting up octave
From: address@hidden
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 12:45:01 -0400
CC: address@hidden
To: address@hidden
On Jun 4, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Michael Teitelbaum wrote:
Hi,
I am a new octave user, trying to set up octave on a mac. I believe I followed the
installation instructions correctly, but I cannot get octave working. When I open octave,
the following message appears in the "terminal" window that comes up:
exec '/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'
savona:~ michael$ exec '/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'
/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave: line 62:
/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave-3.4.0: Bad CPU type in
executable
[Process completed]
I am then unable to type anything in to that window. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks
Please tell us what version of MacOS you are running, and what your CPU is, and
what version of Octave your have installed.
You are apparently trying to run an app-bundle for a CPU type which your
computer does not have.
Octave's developers currently do not have a reliable app-bundle for Octave
3.4.x, or 3.6.x. There is an app-bundle for 3.4.x, but some manual adjustments
may be needed to get it working correctly.
http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_MacOS_X_Bundle
I recommend you try obtaining Octave via a package manager instead.
http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Octave_for_MacOS_X
Ben