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

[Marius Schamschula]

On Jul 2, 2005, at 12:31 PM, Henry F. Mollet wrote:

> First going a step back.
> Where do I put "set term aqua" for gnuplot and "gset term aqua" for 
> octave?
> That's what I'm using presently in the Terminal so I can use plot etc.
> I have checked on my old fink installation for octave 2.1.46 and 
> gnuplot
> 3.8i:
> 1. .gnuplot is empty
> 2. .octaverc has LOADPATH, but nothing about aqua
> 3. .cshrc has commented out #setenv GNUTERM aqua
> Therefore I have no clue how gnuplot finds Aquaterm when it is called 
> by
> octave. Don't know how octave finds gnuplot either.
>
> As I'm now using the bash shell, does
>
> GNUTERM=aqua or is it

and then

export GNUTERM

> export GNUTERM="aqua"

will work

However, if you have my current version of gnuplot, this is the default.

> have to be added to my .profile?

.bash_profile  is wher I put these things

> henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ cat .profile
> export PATH="$PATH:/Developer/Tools:/usr/local/bin"
>
> For X11 is
> DISPLAY=:0.0
> That has to be added to my .profile also?

Yes. Also needs to export(ed).

> Sorry, I'm having a hard time with X11. I just don't know what exactly 
> it
> is. I can open it but don't know the difference of running octave in 
> the
> terminal compared to running it in X11. Is there an easy 
> explanation/analogy
> that I can understand?
>
> According to what you said and my notes, X11 is required for xpm (was
> eliminated from the list of packages because no X 10.4 version exists 
> yet),
> qhull (geometry toolbox). X11 is options for octave but AquaTerm 
> appears to
> be easier to use. Not sure if X11 is an option for octave-forge or if 
> it is
> needed at least for a few items.

Nor will a Xpm package exist, unless a new version is put out and Apple 
does not update theirs . The current version of Xpm is part of Mac OS X 
10.3.x and 10.4.x.

> Since X11 was installed at the very end, I guess that I now have to 
> tell
> each application above where it is?

No. It goes into a standard directory structure.

> Or take qhull: If I re-install with X11 present then it should work?

Yes.

> Henry
>
>
>
>
> on 7/2/05 3:43 AM, Marius Schamschula at address@hidden wrote:
>
> > Henry,
> >
> > On Jul 1, 2005, at 9:43 PM, Henry F. Mollet wrote:
> >
> > > gnuplot: unable to open display ''
> > > gnuplot: X11 aborted.
> > >
> > > Must have found X11 but not happy yet either.
> >
> > This is a well known issue:
> >
> > Your DISPLAY variable is not set.
> >
> > Somewhere in your shell profile you need to set
> >
> > DISPLAY=:0.0
> >
> > This allows an octave session running in the Terminal.app to talk to
> > X11.
> >
> > The easier way to teset this is to start X11 and run octave and/or
> > gnuplot from within a xterm.
> >
> > However, you really want to run octave in the Terminal.app: drag and
> > drop, etc.

Marius
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