Re: HPC has octave-2.1.73 for Mac

[Henry F. Mollet]

Thank you Gaurav and Joe. Sorry for delay. Now this was an easy installation
on an 'older" iMac (G3, 400 Mhz, with 192 MB SDRAM) with clean install of
Mac OS X version 10.4.5 (per upgrade) and developer tools installed about 6
months ago. Nothing else.

It was just sitting there waiting for installation of new version of octave.
Installation of octave version 2.1.73 from HPC site took less than a minute
yesterday. Gnuplot link now worked and provided the gnuplot.pkg (dmg), which
I installed after first downloading the Aquaterm.pkg (dmg).

Everything seems to work. I assume that the Aquaterm.pkg installed via
HPC/gnuplot links is the same as the one put together by Per Persson.
Thanks again to everybody.
Henry


on 3/31/06 1:51 PM, Gaurav Khanna at address@hidden wrote:

> 
> Hi
> 
> I just updated the link to on the HPC site for the gnuplot binary.
> Thanks for telling me about the dead link ..
> 
> Best
> Gaurav
> 
> On Mar 31, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Joe Koski wrote:
> 
>> Henry,
>> 
>> 1) Octave and octave-forge distribute files into several /usr/local
>> locations including /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/
>> share, etc.
>> etc. You just happened to be looking at one of them. If octave works
>> correctly, you have a good installation.
>> 
>> 2) My preference for the latest gnuplot-4.0 .dmg is
>> 
>>   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2055
>> 
>> scroll down the page, and the first item is a .dmg installer that
>> was put
>> together by Per Persson.
>> 
>> Joe
>> 
>> 
>> on 3/31/06 2:29 PM, Henry F. Mollet at address@hidden wrote:
>> 
>>> Indeed that looked easy but I have two small problems.
>>> 1. Why do I get installation in usr/local/lib (see below). My
>>> Finder window
>>> was at /usr/local/lib because I wanted to be able to see what
>>> happened
>>> during installation. Installation was so fast there was no time to
>>> switch
>>> from terminal window to Finder window. lib was the only folder in /
>>> usr/local
>>> and I had selected it. For no reason but apparently a mistake.
>>> 
>>> Last login: Fri Mar 31 12:26:35 on console
>>> Welcome to Darwin!
>>> henry-mollets-imac:~ hfm$ pwd
>>> /Users/hfm
>>> henry-mollets-imac:~ hfm$ ls
>>> Desktop         Library         Music           Public
>>> Documents       Movies          Pictures        Sites
>>> henry-mollets-imac:~ hfm$ cd Desktop
>>> henry-mollets-imac:~/Desktop hfm$ ls
>>> octave-2.9.4.tar        octave-bin.tar
>>> henry-mollets-imac:~/Desktop hfm$ sudo tar -xvf
>>> octave-bin.tar -C /
>>> 
>>> CUT
>>> Password:
>>> usr/local/
>>> CUT
>>> usr/local/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc
>>> 
>>> henry-mollets-imac:~/Desktop hfm$ cd /usr/local
>>> henry-mollets-imac:/usr/local hfm$ ls
>>> bin     include info    lib     libexec man     share
>>> henry-mollets-imac:/usr/local hfm$ cd lib
>>> henry-mollets-imac:/usr/local/lib hfm$ ls
>>> gcc                     libg2c.a
>>> libgcc_s.dylib
>>> libfrtbegin.a           libg2c.dylib
>>> libiberty.a
>>> libg2c.0.0.0.dylib      libg2c.la
>>> libreadline.a
>>> libg2c.0.dylib          libgcc_s.1.0.dylib
>>> octave-2.1.73
>>> henry-mollets-imac:/usr/local/lib hfm$
>>> 
>>> 2. I cannot find download for gnuplot for mac:
>>> http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/download.html gives
>>> Gnuplot 4.0 for the Macintosh *to be* available at
>>> homepage.mac.com/gnuplot/
>>> (or somewhere else, please wait).
>>> Then when I click on the above URL, I'm taken to
>>> http://www.mac.com/account_error.html with the following message:
>>> Our records show that the account you're attempting to connect to
>>> either
>>> does not exist or is currently inactive.
>>> Henry
>>> 
>>> on 3/31/06 12:02 PM, Vic Norton at address@hidden wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Thank you so much, Gaurav!!!
>>>> 
>>>> I got my G5 iMac from Apple less than four months ago, but it seems
>>>> absolutely impossible for me to install a standard distribution of
>>>> octave due to stuff that has been left out of my system. Your HPC
>>>> compilation, on the other hand, is a triviality to install. I've
>>>> been
>>>> using your 2.1.71 since I bought my new iMac, having wasted
>>>> countless
>>>> hours trying to install 2.1.72. Fortunately I didn't waste much
>>>> time on
>>>> 2.1.73 before you came to the rescue.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Vic
>>>> 
>>>> On 3/31/06, at 11:34 AM -0700, Joe Koski wrote:
>>>>> Gaurav Khanna has updated his website
>>>>> 
>>>>>   http://hpc.sourceforge.net/
>>>>> 
>>>>> to include binaries for octave-2.1.73 with octave-forge.
>>>>> Installation
>>>>> instructions are on the web site.
>>>>> 
>>>>> He built the binaries with OS X 10.3.9, to get around the
>>>>> "dispatch"
>>>>> error seen with binaries built with OS X 10.4.5. This should enable
>>>>> all Mac users to get the latest octave running. Thanks Gaurav.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Joe
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>> 
>> 
>> 
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