Thank you and apologies for incomplete info. I'm still using Mac OSX
V.10.2.8 (not 10.3 Panther) and was under the impression that
Fink/FinkCommander would lead me to latest source code.
Whereas I noticed that an info and a patch file for 2.1.50-11 were
downloaded during the failed installation, it was only
octave-2.1.46.tar.gz
that was downloaded but then apparently not installed because of
alleged
problem with package system-xfree86-4.2-13. (I don't need xfree86
because my
previous version of Octave, 2.1.35, installed 1 yr ago using Fink,
worked
fine using Gnuplot in combination with AquaTerm).
I had a look at http://homepage.mac.com/chibaf/math/macosx/install/
which looks promising and I'll work on it as soon as the link to Octave
loads in my browser. However, this URL appears to have conflicting
information. It first mentions what's needed (OS 10.2 or later,
Developer,
AND FINK). Then it says to install g77, which I suspect is not needed
if
FINK was installed?) and then it gives
% .configure
% make
% sudo make install
instructions for some of the programs (e.g. Gnuplot and Octave with
Atlas
and fftw) implying that we are not using Fink.
Similar to the current thread on installation of Octave on PC, the
instructions apparently are never quite clear for many on Mac or PC to
get
Octave running, so one could use this great program without major
difficulties to begin with.
Henry
on 12/1/03 4:51 PM, Gavin Jin at address@hidden wrote:
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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