Re: octave-image package

[Robert Fong-tom]

On Nov 20, 2008, at 10:30 AM, Jonathan Stickel wrote:

> moving this to macports-users list since this seems to be a  
> MacPorts issue; please remove help-octave from to/cc when responding
>
> Robert Fong-tom wrote:
> > On Nov 19, 2008, at 1:29 PM, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > I tried porting the Image package using MacPorts, but was
> > > > > > > > > >  unsuccessful. Kept getting errors that I did not
> > > > > > > > > > understand and the MacPorts  help blog did not clear up
> > > > > > > > > > my confusion. I did not try Fik but after my experience
> > > > > > > > > > with MacPorts, I am reluctant to waste another week! Bob
> > > I am using MacPorts on Mac OS X 10.4.11.  The image package  
> > > installs and
> > > works fine as best as I can tell, although I use only one or two  
> > > of the
> > > provided functions.  In macports the package name is "octave- 
> > > image" and
> > > it is currently at version 1.0.6.
> > Jonathan,
> > I am also using OS X 10.4.11. Could it be that the environment  
> > settings make a difference? Did you have to install ImageMagick  
> > separately?
>
> ImageMagick is a dependency for octave-image.  It should be  
> installed via macports automatically when you try to install octave- 
> image.
>
> You are a little unclear about the steps you took to install octave  
> and the octave-forge image package.  You should not have installed  
> the octave.app from the dmg file from sourceforge.  Instead, you  
> should install everything from macports, by doing:
>
> $ sudo port install octave
>
> and then
>
> $ sudo port install octave-image
>
> What architecture do you have, Intel or PowerPC?
>
> Jonathan

OK, this sounds like the problem. I had Octave 3.0.2 from the  
sourceforge dmg  file. I liked it so then I tried to download the  
packages there. Actually the Image package is on the SourceForge site  
(http://octave.sourceforge.net/) . I first tried to download this  
package but did not have the full functionality. I could not read  
images of any format.

So then I tried to download using MacPorts. After some initial  
problems, I was able to install MacPorts itself, but then when I  
tried to install Octave-image from MacPorts I got errors during the  
port (unfortunately I did not save the error messages). I used the  
commands you gave above to port Octave-Image. After searching the  
MacPorts archive for help and e-mailing MacPorts help blog without  
success I gave-up on MacPorts and uninstalled Octave. Then I  
installed Octave dmg file at ver 3.0.3 from SourceForge and this is  
where I am now.

BTW ... shouldn't the Image package at SourceForge work for me?

My architecture is Intel MacBook Pro with OS X 10.4.11

Bob