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Re: How can I make Octave and Gnuplot work in Leopard?


From: Stuart Edwards
Subject: Re: How can I make Octave and Gnuplot work in Leopard?
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:44:50 -0400

On Oct 28, 2011, at 2:57 AM, alex_dlc wrote:

> (If anyone has Gnuplot working on a Mac please let me know)
> 
> Im using a Macbook with OSX 10.5.8 (Leopard). I already had X11 installed. I
> installed Octave v3.4.0 and it seems to be working fine. Then I also
> installed gnuplot v4.4.3 (I simply put both Octave.app and gnuplot.app in
> the Applications folder.)
> 
> I didnt think there would be any problem, since Octave seemed to be working
> fine. However, any time i try to use hist(x) or plot(x) or any other
> plotting function, Octave shows a bunch of errors and it crashes. (Ill post
> an image of the errors I get when trying to plot something)
> 
> The error seems to be something about the libreries:
> /Reason: Incompatible library version: libgd.2.dylib requires version 6.0.0
> or later, but libfontconfig.1.dylib provides version 5.0.0
> /
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/file/n3947084/sdvn.png 
> 
> I also noticed that if I try to run gnuplot.app by doubleclicking on it, I
> get another bunch of errors and it crashes. (even if Octave is running or
> not)
> 
> After searching for a while I found a "Note for Snow Leopard Users" which
> claims to also apply to Leopard 10.5.8 users. This note esplains how to fix
> some errors in both octave.app and gnuplot.app, however, after doing
> everything the note says, I still get the same errors when trying to plot
> anything. 
> 
> This is the note I found:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files//Octave%20MacOSX%20Binary/2009-10-03%20binary%20of%20Octave%203.2.3/README_OSX1065.txt/view
> 
> I dont know what else to do, I need to get Octave working asap. As far as I
> know, installing octave and gnuplot on a Windows PC works well without
> problems. So if both 10.5.8 Leopard and 10.6.5 Snow Leopard have issues with
> gnuplot, who wouldnt encounter problems with them? Who, if any, could
> install octave and gnuplot and use them to plot stuff without getting
> errors?
> 
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I have Octave 3.4.0  and Gnuplot  4.2.6 running on OS X 10.6.8.  Both work well 
together with no error messages.  Haven't tried upgrading Gnuplot to 4.4.3 
........

Stu

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