On Sep 8, 2012, at 11:45 AM, Miriam Heller wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Ben Abbott <
address@hidden> wrote:
>> *** Please REPLY-ALL and respond at the bottom to allow those who arrive late to follow along ***
>>
>> On Sep 8, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Miriam Heller wrote:
>>
>> > On 9/8/12 11:10 AM, "Ben Abbott" <
address@hidden> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Sep 8, 2012, at 3:28 AM, avatarmh wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Please help me! I also am in the Coursera course and would like to take it
>> >>> and learn. Unfortunately, I can't get Octave to work at all now. I know
>> >>> nothing about Mac OSX. I know how to double-click on dmg files and have them
>> >>> work. I don't understand anything anyone has suggested that involves more
>> >>> than that. Also, when I see ">" I don't know where they are. Finally, I
>> >>> don't know what bash, profile, etc. are. Please help me take this course,
>> >>> which is nothing without a plotting capability.
>> >>>
>> >>> First, I followed the original instructions, which entailed loading
>> >>> (double-clicking on the icons of) Octave and gnuplot. Octave worked. I put
>> >>> in an instruction at the prompt and it was interpreted.
>> >>>
>> >>> Then I tried the "plot" function. Like the two posts before me, nothing
>> >>> happened, then finally I got similar errors as my fellow students above.
>> >>>
>> >>> Next, someone put XQuartz up on the installation site and said that was what
>> >>> I needed. I loaded (double-clicked on) it. I reloaded Octave and gnuplot. I
>> >>> double-clicked on Octave in my applicaitons folder and now I get the
>> >>> following:
>> >>>
>> >>> --------------
>> >>> Last login: Sat Sep 8 03:20:27 on ttys000
>> >>> exec '/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'
>> >>> Macintosh-34159e0b8e58:~ MiriamHeller$ exec
>> >>> '/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'
>> >>> dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
>> >>> Referenced from:
>> >>> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave-3.4.0
>> >>> Reason: image not found
>> >>> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave: line 68: 1793
>> >>> 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"
>> >>> "${ROOT}/bin/octave-3.4.0" "$@"
>> >>>
>> >>> [Process completed]
>> >>> -----------------------------
>> >>>
>> >>> So now I can't even use MatLab.
>> >>>
>> >>> Please help me. I will officially be behind on Monday, when I won't have
>> >>> been able to go through the Octave Tutorial, Review Questions, and
>> >>> Programming Problem.
>> >>>
>> >>> I'd do anything if this could be interactive.
>> >>>
>> >>> Know that you'd have an enormously appreciative person, if you could help
>> >>> me. I've been at this over a week now.
>> >>>
>> >>> Thank you in advance in anticipation of you helping me.
>> >>
>> >> Miriam,
>> >>
>> >> Please avoid hijacking threads started by others. You should start your own.
>> >> I've changed the subject to describe your problem.
>> >>
>> >> To start, please tell us your MacOS X version.
>> >>
>> >> It appears to me that you've broken your X11 by installing XQuartz. To verify
>> >> ...
>> >>
>> >> (1) run /Applications/Utilities/Terminal
>> >> (2) At the command line type "xeyes"
>> >> (3) Tell us what happens
>> >>
>> >> Ben
>> >
>> > Dear Ben,
>> >
>> > Thank you infinitely for responding, starting a debug as well as a new
>> > thread (which I'd love to know how to find). Then I'd put this email in
>> > there.
>> >
>> > I think I ran what you suggested. I think the first command was meant to
>> > pull up a terminal window using. If not please let me know.
>> >
>> > This is what I got:
>> >
>> > Last login: Sat Sep 8 03:25:06 on ttys000
>> > Macintosh-34159e0b8e58:~ MiriamHeller$ run /Applications/Utilities/Terminal
>> > -bash: run: command not found
>>
>> You are already running the Terminal
>>
>> > Macintosh-34159e0b8e58:~ MiriamHeller$ xeyes
>>
>>
>> What happened when your entered "xeyes" ?
>>
>> Ben
>
> Sorry - I didn't answer your main question (I'm a Team Leaders for the election and today is our "Weekend of Action". That is I'm juggling.)
>
> The response was two big cartoon eyes that follow my cursor.
>
> Miriam