Re: can't plot in Octave on my Mac, but gnuplot and Aqua are working

[Daniel J Farrell]

Hi Jonathan,

Here are the details of my set up:
GNU Octave, version 2.1.73 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0)
gnuplot 4.2 patchlevel rc1
AquaTerm v1.0.1 (1.0.1)

I don't have any of your exports in my shell file (I use .profile  
rather than .bashrc). However, I have set some MacOS environment  
variables. This can be done by making ~.MacOS/environment.plist. In  
this pref. list file make the following entries associated with  
GNUTERM and PATH (see screen shot, www.boyfarrell.com/forums/ 
octave.jpg). The PATH string obviously needs to be your PATH string!  
I don't think that you can use the dollar sign in this file you will  
have to hard code a the paths.

Have a look here:
http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html

There are other such reference to the envionment.plist at this site.

Hope that works!

Dan.


On 15 May 2007, at 05:13, Jonathan Kane wrote:

> Hi,
>    I installed Aquaterm 1.0.1 and gnuplot 4.0 and I can make plots  
> with gnuplot, so I think I installed them correctly.  I installed  
> Octave and set the following variables in .bashrc:
> **
> export AQUATERM_REPORT_TIMING=1
> export AQUATERM_PATH=/Applications/AquaTerm.app
> export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
> export GNUTERMAPP=/Applications/AquaTerm.app
> export GNUTERM=aqua
> **
>
> When I start Octave up, I get the following error:
>
> **
> error: couldn't link module /usr/local/libexec/octave/2.9.9/site/ 
> oct/i386-apple-darwin8.9.1/octave-forge/__imagemagick__.oct
> error: evaluating argument list element number 2
> error: near line 1 of file `/usr/local/share/octave/2.9.9/site/m/ 
> octave-forge/image/PKG_ADD'
> error: source: error sourcing file `/usr/local/share/octave/2.9.9/ 
> site/m/octave-forge/image/PKG_ADD'
> error: near line 11 of file `/usr/local/share/octave/2.9.9/m/ 
> startup/octaverc'
> **
>
> Next, when I type a simple Matlab-like plotting command I get the  
> following errors:
>
> **
> octave:1> sombrero(25)
> parse error near line 46 of file /usr/local/share/octave/2.9.9/m/ 
> plot/mesh.m
>
>   syntax error
>
> >>>       __gnuplot_set__ noparametric;
>                                      ^
>
> error: `mesh' undefined near line 45 column 7
> error: evaluating if command near line 40, column 5
> error: evaluating if command near line 39, column 3
> error: called from `sombrero' in file `/usr/local/share/octave/ 
> 2.9.9/m/plot/sombrero.m'
> **
>
>
> Can anyone tell me what's going on?  Please help!  Thanks!!
>
> Jon
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