Re: Octave and the new Mountain Lion Operating System

[Ben Abbott]

On Jul 30, 2012, at 8:36 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> On Jul 27, 2012, at 1:41 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> 
>> Hey, Octave.  I am having a great time with Octave as a learning tool for 
>> Dr. Andrew Ng's Machine Learning class through coursera.org.  Only problem 
>> is though, I upgraded my iMac OS to Mountain Lion two days ago and now 
>> Octave is n/s.
>> 
>> Any fixes would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> What version of Octave were you running, and how did you install Octave? Did 
> you use a package manager like Fink, MacPorts, or Homebrew?
> 
> If you've installed one of the old application bundles for Octave from 
> SourceForge, they *may* no longer work correctly due to Apple no longer 
> including X11 with MacOS 10.8.
> 
> Fink, MacPorts, and Homebrew all have an updates out for Mountain Lion.  
> Unfortunately, Mountain Lion no longer includes the X11 app. This is 
> something that MacPorts and Fink are able to provide, but I'm not sure about 
> Homebrew.
> 
> The Fink version of Octave is current (3.6.2).  MacPorts provides an "octave" 
> port for 3.2.4 and and "octave-devel" port for 3.4.3.  Since MacPort's 
> versions are dated, I recommend you install a new Octave using Fink.
> 
> Ben

The link below provides instructions for over-coming the problem of the missing 
X11.  So my concern about Homebrew isn't warranted.

        https://gist.github.com/1860902

Ben