Re: plotting problem on Mac OSX

[Ben Abbott]

On Jul 16, 2013, at 2:11 PM, chp380 wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> I'm using Octave version 3.4.0 running on OSX Mountain lion, and I have
> installed X-Code 4.6.1, AquaTerm 1.1.0, X11 2.7.2 and Gnuplot too. But
> nothing still happens when I'm trying to plot a graph. Just AquaTerm Opens
> and nothing else happens. 
> please someone help me with this.
> thanks.


I assume you installed an application bundle for Octave?  Maybe one recommended 
by Coursera?

There are some problems with running the application bundle on Lion and 
Mountain Lion.  Some people have been successful, but others have problems.  
The problem may be that your copy of gnuplot was built to use a different 
version of Aquaterm than the one you have installed.  To fix that, just 
uninstall Aquaterm ... often gnuplot comes bundled with Aquaterm (buried in the 
gnuplot application bundle).  If that doesn't fix the problem for you, you can 
try using the x11 terminal.  From Octave's prompt, just try ...

        setenv GNUTERM x11
        plot (rand (3))

In general, we recommend you use one of the package managers available for Mac 
OSX (Fink, Macports, or Homebrew).

        http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_MacOS_X

Please uninstall the version Aquaterm you have before trying to run Octave 
installed using any of these package managers.

Ben