Re: How do I install Octave on Mac OS X?

[Henry F. Mollet]

Using Fink in combination with FinkCommander is probably easiest for
installation of Octave but you won't get 2.1.71 version. I checked right now
and my Fink commander would install 2.1.53.

I used http://dcollett.macosx.com/octaveOSX104.html
for installation and thanks to help from octave_list, I managed to install
Octave 2.1.71, Gnuplot 4.0, plus AquaTerm. I have X11 installed also and use
it at times for more advanced things like zooming and rotations (VTK) but
AquaTerm is much easier to use. (Have not yet managed to installed Octaviz
so I could use VTK in Octave)

I have not checked but installation suggested below at
http://www.hmug.org/pub/MacOS_X/BSD/Applications/Science/octave/ might be
similar because D. Collett was helped by Marius Schamschula when he put his
installation guide together.
Henry


on 10/23/05 12:56 PM, Marius Schamschula at address@hidden wrote:

> Malte,
> 
> There are two other possibilities:
> 
> 1) Use DarwinPorts <http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/> or
> 
> 2) my meta package
> <http://www.hmug.org/pub/MacOS_X/BSD/Applications/Science/octave/>
> 
> On Oct 23, 2005, at 12:09 PM, Steve C. Thompson wrote:
> 
>> Hi Malte,
>> 
>>> I would be please if any one could send me a complete
>>> guidance how to install and run octave on Max OS X 1.4.2
>>> (using X11 ?).
>> 
>> I would suggest first install fink
>> <http://fink.sourceforge.net/>, then installing Octave.
>> Fink gives the MacOS user the opportunity to use much of the
>> quality free software out there.  When it is installed, you
>> can install Octave simply by issuing `apt-get install octave'.
>> 
>> Steve
> 
> Marius
> --
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> 
>          The Huntsville Macintosh Users Group
>                      www.hmug.org
> 
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> 
> 
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