Re: Installing Octave using FinkCommander

[Gavin Jin]

The Fink developers were still porting applications to 10.3 last time I 
checked, and
they still recommended binary installation until they stabilize the 
packages.

That supported binary  is older than 2.1.46.

So I  updated  mine with Darwinport

[gavin-unix:myWork/ruby/libpcap-ruby] gjin% octave --version
GNU Octave, version 2.1.50 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.0.0).
Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 John W. 
Eaton.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTIBILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Report bugs to <address@hidden>.
[gavin-unix:myWork/ruby/libpcap-ruby] gjin% port search octave
octave          math/octave     2.1.50          a Matlab-like 
environment for numerical analysis
[gavin-unix:myWork/ruby/libpcap-ruby] gjin%



I also downloaded the latest source code and followed the instructions
on http://homepage.mac.com/chibaf/math/macosx/install/
 without any problem.



On Dec 1, 2003, at 2:18 PM, Henry F. Mollet wrote:

> I know this is a Fink or FinkCommander problem but I'm hoping a Mac 
> user on
> this list will be able to help.
>
> I've tried to upgrade Octave to the latest available version on Fink 
> and
> failed and deleted previous version of Octave by mistake.
>
> I've tried to install octave 2.1.46-1 using FinkCommander and
> after 6.5 hours of compilation, the installation failed:
> ### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1
> Failed: can't install package system-xfree86-4.2-13
>
> I did not anticipate xfree86 was needed and I may have made a mistake 
> with
> regard to any options presented for this during installation.
>
> A little checking showed that
> SW/Applications/AquaTerm (application) was present/installed and could 
> be
> opened. The tar.gz files for both octave and gnuplot were present in 
> SW/SRC
> but neither application was installed.
>
> Before trying re-installation, I'm hoping for tip. Thanks
> Henry
>
>
>
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