Re: Octave and the new Mountain Lion Operating System

[Ben Abbott]

On Aug 2, 2012, at 12:28 PM, Vic Norton wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 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 @3.4.3, have been out of date for quite a while.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

I commented on the MacPorts ticket #35434.

        https://trac.macports.org/ticket/35434

In any event, Fink and Homebrew are both doing well to in keeping up with 
recent Octave releases.

Ben