Re: octave & octave-forge install instructions for Mac OS X 10.4.x

[Marius Schamschula]

On Jul 1, 2005, at 1:15 PM, Henry F. Mollet wrote:

> N.B. Perhaps my gnuplot tar package or the expanded package had an 
> error. Is
> this possible? Henry
>
> 6. I tried installation with the following present:
> henry-f-mollets-emac:/tmp hfm$ ls
> PDFlib-Lite-6.0.1               objc_sharing_ppc_4294967294
> aquaterm_src                    objc_sharing_ppc_501
> cs_cache_lock_501               objc_sharing_ppc_92
> gd-2.0.33                       readline-5.0
> gnuplot-4.0.0                   zlib-1.2.2
> libpng-1.2.8
>
> Installation failed. Lots of errors.

Which revisions of these packages? E.g. if the package is labeled 
readline-5.0-4-osx4.tar.gz the revision number is 4.

> 7. Then I downloaded the gnuplot tarball again, expanded it, and put 
> it into
> /tmp and tried again. Had to use the Finder because I couldn't delete 
> the
> directory gnuplot-4.0.0 in the terminal window.

Next time try

sudo rm -Rf /tmp/gnuplot-4.0.0

> Installation now worked:
> henry-f-mollets-emac:/usr/local/bin hfm$ /usr/local/bin/gnuplot
>
>         G N U P L O T
>         Version 4.0 patchlevel 0
>         last modified Thu Apr 15 14:44:22 CEST 2004
>         System: Darwin 8.1.0
>
> Terminal type set to 'unknown'
> gnuplot>

What happens if you

set term aqua

or

set term X11

> on 7/1/05 7:41 AM, Henry F. Mollet at address@hidden wrote:
>
> > David,
> > Installation of octave was successful but not gnuplot. I have the 
> > following
> > questions and comments.
> > Henry
> >
> > 1. I installed gnuplot out of order after gfortran instead of after
> > readline. I thought it would not matter because gnuplot is a 
> > stand-alone
> > application. Apparently it does matter or it was something else that 
> > caused
> > the problem. I cannot provide more details because I did not save the
> > terminal output during installation. So much was "flying" by in the 
> > terminal
> > that I don't know if a particular package was installed correctly or 
> > not. I
> > was waiting for the prompt to re-appear and then installed the next 
> > package.
> > According to my notes installation of gnuplot took less than 1 minute 
> > but
> > this was the same for all packages.
> >
> > 2. Apparently the installation has to be done in "one go" because 
> > when I
> > tried to re-install gnuplot the next day it failed with errors from 
> > the
> > beginning to the end in the terminal output. After the computer had 
> > been
> > turned off all the packages in /tmp had disappeared and I had 
> > unzipped the
> > gnuplot tar ball again and put it into /tmp. However, all the 
> > dependency
> > packages were missing and therefore installation could not succeeed?
> >
> > 3. Dependencies for gnuplot are aquaterm, gd, libpng, PDFlib-lite, 
> > readline,
> > zlib and X11. I assume that X11 is not need if I'm planning to use 
> > aquaterm?
> > The other ones need to be present in /tmp before installing gnuplot?
> >
> > 4. When installing aquaterm, I had two options: a tarball and a dmg. 
> > I used
> > the dmp and aquaterm was successfully installed in /Applications. 
> > Should I
> > have used the tarball because during installation of gnuplot, 
> > aquaterm was
> > not present in /tmp?
> >
> > 5. What would be best to try next?
> >
> >
> > on 6/30/05 12:43 AM, David Collett at address@hidden wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, everyone.
> > >
> > > Version #3 of these OS X 10.4.x install instructions is up, with
> > > changes/additions from several people:
> > >
> > > http://dcollett.macosx.com/octaveOSX104.html
> > >
> > > However, there still may be some incorrect info or items that should
> > > be added/deleted.
> > >
> > > For those on the list who have been helping us with these
> > > instructions and problems, would you please take a look at this list
> > > and send any recommended changes/deletions/additions to me?
> > >
> > > The more accurate we can make these instructions, the fewer repeat
> > > questions that will be posted to the group in the future.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > David Collett

Marius
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