Re: Octave and the new Mountain Lion Operating System

[Ben Abbott]

On Aug 2, 2012, at 12:57 AM, John B. Thoo wrote:

> Hello, Ben.
> 
> On Jul 30, 2012, at 5:36 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> [...snip,snip...]
>> 
>> I recommend you install a new Octave using Fink.
> 
> I have Octave 3.2.3 installed from binary (.dmg).  I recently upgraded to 
> Lion (10.7.4).  Do you recommend that from now on I use Octave installed 
> using Fink?  Should I delete the previous binary first?  What about Gnuplot?  
> Anything else?
> 
> Thanks very much.
> 
> ---John.

The Octave and Gnuplot apps in your Applications folder can co-exist with Fink. 
So there is no need to uninstall anything.  There are some simple instructions 
at the link below.

        
http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_MacOS_X#Simple_Installation_Instructions

Ben