Re: How do I install Octave on Mac OS X?

[Henry F. Mollet]

Thanks for tip which I will use when I next install something using Fink.

What exactly needs to be edited in /sw/etc/fink.conf below. Is it
'Trees: local/main unstable/main unstable/crypto' instead of
'Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto' ?
and perhaps
'UseBinaryDist: false'  instead of
'UseBinaryDist: true'  if no binary is available?
Henry

# Fink configuration, initially created by bootstrap.pl
Basepath: /sw
RootMethod: sudo
Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto
Distribution: 10.4-transitional
Mirror-apt: http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/bindist
Mirror-cpan: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/
Mirror-ctan: ftp://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/
Mirror-debian: ftp.debian.org
Mirror-gimp: ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/
Mirror-gnome: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/
Mirror-gnu: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu
Mirror-kde: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/
Mirror-master: http://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/
Mirror-rsync: rsync://master.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/
Mirror-sourceforge: http://west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/
MirrorContinent: nam
MirrorCountry: nam-us
MirrorOrder: MasterFirst
ProxyPassiveFTP: true
UseBinaryDist: true
Verbose: 1



on 10/23/05 11:00 PM, David Fang at address@hidden wrote:

>> Using Fink in combination with FinkCommander is probably easiest for
>> installation of Octave but you won't get 2.1.71 version. I checked right now
>> and my Fink commander would install 2.1.53.
> 
> Hi,
> Octave 2.1.71 is available through fink in the *unstable*
> distribution tree, which you can enable by editing /sw/etc/fink.conf.  It
> installed (along with prerequisites) with no problems on OS X both 10.4
> and 10.3.  HTH.
> 
>> I used http://dcollett.macosx.com/octaveOSX104.html
>> for installation and thanks to help from octave_list, I managed to install
>> Octave 2.1.71, Gnuplot 4.0, plus AquaTerm. I have X11 installed also and use
>> it at times for more advanced things like zooming and rotations (VTK) but
>> AquaTerm is much easier to use. (Have not yet managed to installed Octaviz
>> so I could use VTK in Octave)
> 
> 
> David Fang
> 
> 
> 
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