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

[David Fang]

> 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.

Hi,
        Octave 2.1.71 is available through fink in the *unstable*
distribution tree, which you can enable by editing /sw/etc/fink.conf.  It
installed (along with prerequisites) with no problems on OS X both 10.4
and 10.3.  HTH.

> 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)


David Fang



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