Re: Octave Installation

[Ben Abbott]

On May 5, 2013, at 11:46 PM, Yongjie wrote:

> Hi, I am using Mac OS X 10.8.3
> 
> After installation of Octave-3.4.0-i386, I opened it from Applications folder.
> 
> It showed this:
> 
> Last login: Sun May  5 23:29:16 on ttys000
> Yongjies-MacBook-Pro:~ yongjiezhang$ exec 
> '/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'
> 
> [Process completed]
> 
> I cannot type anything ...
> 
> May anyone help me ?
> 
> Thank you very much.<Screen Shot 2013-05-05 at 11.43.44 PM.png>

You installed an Octave bundle?  See the warning at the bottom of the page 
below.

        http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_MacOS_X#Installing_a_Mac_OS_X_Bundle

To install Octave on MacOS 10.8, please try either Fink, Macports, or Homebrew.

        http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_MacOS_X#Package_Managers

Ben