Re: Problems installing Octave on osx 10.6.8

[Ben Abbott]

On Aug 18, 2012, at 7:29 AM, George Profenza wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm currently trying to install Octave and am experiencing some issues.
> Here's what I tried:
> I've installed Octave via Macports - Octave itself works, but even though 
> Macports reports gnuplot and aquaterm were installed using functions like 
> stem() or plot() 
> seem to be ignored (as if there is no link between Octave and GnuPlot or 
> GnuPlot can't open a window, but I'm not getting any errors)
> 
> I've also tried the osx bundle and have installed 
> http://www.miscdebris.net/upload/gnuplot-4.2.5-i386.dmg as advised on the 
> wiki,
> but I got these errors:
> 
> [code]
> george-profenzas-macbook:~ george$ exec 
> '/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'
> dyld: Symbol not found: __cg_jpeg_resync_to_restart
>   Referenced from: 
> /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ImageIO.framework/Versions/A/Resources/libTIFF.dylib
>   Expected in: /libJPEG.dylib
>  in 
> /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ImageIO.framework/Versions/A/Resources/libTIFF.dylib
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave: line 68: 26488 
> Trace/BPT trap          OCTAVE_HOME="${OCTAVE_HOME}" PATH="${PATH}" 
> DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}" CC="${CC}" CXX="${CXX}" 
> CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS}" CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS}" 
> FFLAGS="${FFLAGS}" LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}" DL_LDFLAGS="${DL_LDFLAGS}" SED="$SED" 
> MAGICK_HOME="${ROOT}" FONTCONFIG_PATH="${ROOT}/etc/fonts" 
> "${ROOT}/bin/octave-3.4.0" "$@"
> [/code]
> 
> I presume the libTIFF and libJPEG bundled in the ImageIO frameworks aren't 
> compatible with Octave ?
> I should have other version of the dylibs installed by Macports when I 
> installed ffmpeg/opencv. 
> Is there a way to tell Octave to look for the dylibs in /opt/local/lib rather 
> than the system frameworks ?
> 
> Any hints/tips on how I can get Octave running with Gnuplot ?
> 
> Thank you for your time,
> George

We recommend you try MacPorts, Fink, or Homebrew.

        http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_MacOS_X

MacPorts does not have an Octave version that is current.  However, the 
octave-devel port is version 3.4.3, which is more current that the bundle 
you've tried to install.

Ben