Re: Octave and the new Mountain Lion Operating System

[Vic Norton]

MacPorts (version 2.1.2) will not install either octave-devel @3.4.3 or 
fltk-devel @1.3.x-r9377 under Mountain Lion. I have created MacPorts tickets 
(#35434 and #35426) for these problems, but no solutions have been forthcoming 
yet.

This is definitely a Mac OSX 10.8 problem. I started a fresh MacPorts with OSX 
10.8, uninstalling all my ports and then reinstalling almost all of them (168 
total). The only ports I couldn't reinstall were math/octave-devel and 
aqua/fltk-devel.

Fortunately I have octave 3.6.2 on my system. This was installed via HomeBrew. 
The octave ports on MacPorts, octave @3.2.4 and octave-devel @3.4.3, have been 
out of date for quite a while. MacPorts doesn't seem to care about keeping 
Octave current, and now you (with OSX 10.8) can't get it at all.

Regards,

Vic

On Aug 2, 2012, at 6:57 AM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
> 
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