Re: Octave-3.4.0.dmg + XQuartz = broken Octave & Matlab

[Alexander Hansen]

>> My political activities (I'm a neighborhood Team Leader) and my meeting with 
>> my Coursera Study Group are over. I am devoting the remainder of time I have 
>> (until the homework is due) to getting Octave to run.
>>
>> *** I hope this was not a bad move, but I upgraded my OS to Mac OSX to 
>> Version 10.8.1. ***
>>
>> Will your recommendation below, i.e.,
>>
>>   http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_MacOS_X
>>
>> using either Fink or MacPorts to manage Applications still work with this 
>> Version?
>>
>> Miriam
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> Regarding Octave, I suggest you try Fink (for the reasons I mentioned above).
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>       http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/octave362
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> Notice, there is a version for MacOS 10.8
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> Bne
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> 

We've even got Octave-3.6.3 (I just added it a moment ago as I write
this).  My primary machine is on 10.8.1, and so I believe I've fixed the
major issues for 10.8.

I can answer any questions specific to Fink's packaging of Octave.
-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/