Re: Still need help installing Octave on a Mac

[Henry F. Mollet]

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Henry


on 3/27/08 6:22 PM, address@hidden at address@hidden wrote:

>  The student reports that he has gone to the Octave homepage, and the Source
> Forge download page, and clicked to download
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> octave-3.0.0-ppc.dmg
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> The download took place and there is a 'source forge' icon on his desktop.? He
> sent me an email saying, I think, that clicking on this icon produces the
> following ...
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> Package Release (date)  Filename    Size (bytes)    Downloads   Architecture
> Type?
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> Totals: 8   16  418483325   20394    Octave Forge Mac?
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> Latest  2007-12-23 binary of Octave 3.0.0 Notes (2007-12-23 06:55)?
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> ?  octave-3.0.0-i386.dmg  Mirror   27488354    6551    i386    .dmg?
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> ?  octave-3.0.0-ppc.dmg  Mirror    28047650    2498    PPC .dmg?
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Assume that you've downloaded this one rather than the one above. It depends
on the Architecture of your Mac. You want to downloac the octave-3.0.0
version rather than any of the options below.
Now see below.
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> ?  2007-12-08 binary of Octave 2.9.18 Notes (2007-12-08 05:56)?
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> ?  2007-11-11 binary of Octave 2.9.17 Notes (2007-11-11 08:20)?
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> ?  2007-11-02 binary of Octave 2.9.16 Notes (2007-11-02 12:09)?
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> ?  2007-10-14 binary of Octave 2.9.15 Notes (2007-10-14 11:28)?
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> ?  2007-09-22 binary of Octave 2.9.14 Notes (2007-09-21 15:49)?
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> ?  2007-07-28 binary of Octave 2.9.13 Notes (2007-07-28 08:37)
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> So ... what should have happened after the download was complete.? What should
> appear on the student's computer.? What should the student do to get the
> program installed.
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You'll get a window called Octave-3.0.0.ppc.dmg (26.7 MB) on your desktop
and at the top of the window it says to drop the octave.app icon into your
Application folder in 5 languages. The window also shows that a
'Readme.html' file, a 'Doc' folder, and a 'Extras' folder are available.
They can be opened for reading the html file or for inspecting what's in the
folders. The 'Extras' folder contains the gnuplot-4.2.2.ppc.dgm which can
also be dropped into your Application folder.

Thanks to Thomas Treichl it is now easy to install octave on a Mac.
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> I'll repeat, someone should create pages for installng Octave on Windows and
> Mac computers that gives step by step directions for getting the program
> running on the user's computer, and without leaving out any steps or assuming
> that 'everyone knows how to do that'.
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> I recall that I had problems trying to install it on my XP and just kept
> futzing around until it finally worked.? There were no 'directions' on
> SourceForge or anywhere else that I could find.
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> This should be easy, not a scavenger hunt.
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