Re: Command not working.

[Ben Abbott]

On Aug 28, 2014, at 9:12 PM, Kunal Goswami <address@hidden> wrote:

> Respected Sir/Madam, I am using a macbook pro running os x mavericks version 
> 10.9.4, I installed octave from the wiki using the home-brew instructions. 
> And the problem is whenever I try to use ‘help’ command it displays the 
> following error. 
> 
> error: unable to open 
> /usr/local/Cellar/octave/3.8.1/share/octave/3.8.1/etc/macros.texi for reading
> error: called from:
> error:   
> /usr/local/Cellar/octave/3.8.1/share/octave/3.8.1/m/help/__makeinfo__.m at 
> line 103, column 5
> error:   /usr/local/Cellar/octave/3.8.1/share/octave/3.8.1/m/help/help.m at 
> line 99, column 22
> 
> 
> 
> Kindly tell me what to do to resolve it, and use the help command as normal. 
> Thanking you in anticipation, 
> Kunal Goswami

I have built Octave on Mavericks and have installed it via Macports. I can 
confirm that the help command does works in each case.

It is likely that you don't have the necessary dependencies installed.  To 
install Octave, did you omit the docs?

        brew install octave --without-docs

If so, you'll need to reinstall with the docs and you'll also need to install a 
TeX distribution that is compatible with Homebrew.  I did a quick Google search 
and found the link below.  It appears that the Homebrew maintainers are working 
on the Octave formula and are looking for testers.

        https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-science/pull/723

I suggest you follow up with them.

Ben