Re: Can't get octave to run on Mac OS X 10.6.8

[Ben Abbott]

On Apr 5, 2012, at 4:28 PM, Dudley Brooks wrote:

> I followed all the instructions on the page
> 
> http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_MacOS_X_Bundle
> 
> Specifically:
> 
>       sudo touch /usr/local/bin/gnuplot
> 
>       sudo ln -s /Applications/gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot 
> /usr/local/bin/gnuplot
> 
>       sudo touch /usr/local/bin/octave
> 
>       sudo ln -s /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave 
> /usr/local/bin/octave
> 
> But when I typed
> 
>       octave
> 
> I got "permission denied".
> 
> Nevertheless, when I typed
> 
>       env
> 
> I found that /usr/local/bin *is* in PATH
> 
> The next instructions said that I should then e-mail here.  Suggestions?  
> Thanks.

Please verify you get the following.

        ls -l /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave
        -rwxrwxrwx  1 bpabbott  admin  2968 Apr 21  2011 
/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave

If Octave is not present in the Applications folder, you'll need to put it 
there first (gnuplot also). After that ....

        sudo rm /usr/local/bin/gnuplot
        sudo rm /usr/local/bin/octave

... and then recreate the symbolic links.

        sudo touch /usr/local/bin/gnuplot

        sudo ln -s /Applications/gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot 
/usr/local/bin/gnuplot

        sudo touch /usr/local/bin/octave

        sudo ln -s /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave 
/usr/local/bin/octave

Ben