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Re: Website Modifications (Re: New Octave for Windows sourceforge releas
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Henry F. Mollet |
Subject: |
Re: Website Modifications (Re: New Octave for Windows sourceforge release) |
Date: |
Sat, 25 Mar 2006 18:42:45 -0800 |
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Installation of Octave is not as easy as it should be in my opinion. Sorry,
if I see an installation which requires modification of flags, I'm getting
lost. I suggest that if it were easier to install octave, a lot more people
would use it.
My first octave on Mac (2.1.35 on 11/29/02) installation was done with Fink.
I could not have done it without it but it was not easy.
I installed of a newer version using Fink/Fink Installer (Octave 2.1.46 on
11/29/03) and it was not easy either. But it was I who screwed up because I
did not read all the instructions.
More recently (June 2005, my current octave installation 2.1.71 ) I
installed from source on Mac OS X 10.4.x using a *26* step process following
http://dcollett.macosx.com/octaveOSx104.html (apparently no longer a valid
URL).
It was mentioned before and again by Paul K a couple of days ago that
http://hpc.sourceforge.net/ should be easier to use but at one time it
would not install octave-forge and/or AquaTerm. To get what was missing was
not easy either.
Earlier (Octave 2.1.36, i.686-pc-cygwin, 2002)) I had installed octave on a
PC with Windows 95 and just clicked on a .exe file. It installed octave,
and gnuplot with menus. This I could handle but almost forgot all about it.
Henry
on 3/24/06 8:19 PM, Bill Denney at address@hidden wrote:
>
> Is fink bad enough to be removed from the list?
>
> Also, do you have any experience with DarwinPorts? Is it good/bad? Up to
> date?
>
> Bill
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- Re: New Octave for Windows sourceforge release, (continued)
- Re: New Octave for Windows sourceforge release, Doug Stewart, 2006/03/30
- Re: New Octave for Windows sourceforge release, Bill Denney, 2006/03/30
- RE: New Octave for Windows sourceforge release, Billings, Paul, 2006/03/30
- Re: New Octave for Windows sourceforge release, Bill Denney, 2006/03/30
Re: New Octave for Windows sourceforge release, Bill Denney, 2006/03/24
Re: New Octave for Windows sourceforge release, Doug Stewart, 2006/03/24