Re: Upgrading to Octave 3.6.4 on OS X Mavericks

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 15, 2014, at 10:03 PM, tblass <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I had octave 3.0.5 on my Mac (OS X 10.6), then I did an update to 10.9,
> updated Fink, and then ran 
> "fink install octave"
> to get the latest version.
> 
> I didn't remove my /sw/ directory, so Fink made an /sw2/ and put everything
> there. ($PATH now begins with /sw2/bin:/sw2/sbin .... )
> 
> When I type "octave" into a terminal, it still runs 3.0.5. I looked in
> /sw2/bin and did not find anything related to octave (in contrast to this,
> in /sw/bin there is octave-3.0.5, octave-config, and some others). I'm
> wondering if this means that the install didn't work properly, and maybe I
> should see octave-3.6.4 in my /sw2/bin directory. 
> 
> Has anyone else had this problem? Do I need to install octave again? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Tim

Sounds like you need to re-install Fink.  I recommend you try the Fink 
mail-list.  I've cc-d Alexander who usually fields these questions.

Ben