Re: Running Octave from Fink?

[Alexander Hansen]

On 11/5/12 2:42 PM, Ev Yemini wrote:
> Hi Alexander and all,
> 
> It turns out fink was failing for the install but, because of the size
> of the command window, the message looked to me like success.
> 
> In a scene reminiscent of South Park's Humancentipad episode, I simply
> scanned the Xcode license, didn't read any of it, and hit return
> *muliple times* before realizing my mistake. Why anyone would make the
> end user type out "agree" I'll never know, but I suppose this is the
> unhappy offspring of a command line wedded to an EULA.
> 
> Right now I'm waiting on a marathon install session of ATLAS. It's
> been about 5 hours so far (including dependencies) and it still seems
> obsessed with reading my L1 cache, so I hope this ends well.
> 
> Despite my pathetic sarcasm, I do want to thank everyone for their
> great help. I understand the nightmares associated with software
> engineering and I greatly appreciate the hard work, selflessness, and
> goodwill that went into producing the programs I'm about to use.
> 
> I'll send out a quick email when everything's done as another thank you.
> 
> Many thanks & all the best,
> Ev
> 
> 
> 

Ah, that'd do it, then.   Fink builds under an unpriviliged user account
for safety, and that requires system-wide acceptance of the Xcode
license.  Having to type "agree" is definitely annoying.

Apple has done worse, though: at one time for updates it was necessary
to accept the Quicktime license _only_ on a console, even on normally
headless server.

Fink's Octave packages do have some idiosyncrasies with respect to other
distributions, but that's mainly in how we handle the libraries and
development packages.

--
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
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