Re: Mac OS X: can anyone install octave or octave-forge?

[Victor Eijkhout]

> Octave does run under Mac OS X (including 10.1, but not tested on 
> 10.1.1). If you want to install it "by hand" there are instructions 
> at http://homepage.mac.com/persquare

Ah. last time I looked there is said that it didn't work yet on 10.1.


> Otherwise you might want to use fink (an automated package manager 
> for OSX) to install it. Fink has octave 2.1.35

> See fink.sourceforge.net for more info. (Octave is in the unstable 
> branch, check the FAQ and the mailing lists for more info.)

I've checked those resources, but
-- "There were no matches for octave found on the website" while the 
messages with octave in the title are staring me in the face
-- there are rather a lot of msgs.

I think I could use another hint.

[localhost:~/Projects/supernova] victorle% fink install octave-forge
sudo /sw/bin/fink install octave-forge
Password:
Reading package info...
Information about 258 packages read.
Failed: no package found for specification 'octave-forge'!
[localhost:~/Projects/supernova] victorle% fink install octave
sudo /sw/bin/fink install octave
Reading package info...
Information about 258 packages read.
Failed: no package found for specification 'octave'!
[localhost:~/Projects/supernova] victorle% fink install octave-2.1.35
sudo /sw/bin/fink install octave-2.1.35
Reading package info...
Information about 258 packages read.
Failed: no package found for specification 'octave-2.1.35'!
[localhost:~/Projects/supernova] victorle%

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