Re: Fwd: Octave on Mac

[Thomas Treichl]

> Hi Thomas,
> 
> I installed using the dmg of the ppc version from the link you had given
> in
> your earlier mail. For gnuplot, I installed it from
> http://www.tucows.com/get/203840_81894
> 
> Both octave executable and gnuplot are sitting in the Applications
> directory. I tried addpath('/Applications/');  to the path. But still it
> is
> not working.
> 
> -Ram

Ok, so I can see that the link you've posted directs to something of gnuplot 
3.7xxx. Octave-2.9.12 in general works with gnuplot 4.2, this could be one 
problem.

Another thing is that octave.app has been prepared to work like you say, but 
just putting gnuplot into /Applications - don't know if this is all that has to 
be done for that gnuplot package. Try this from your Terminal.app
  
  bash$ which gnuplot

if it then says something like 'gnuplot not found' then you need to set up that 
package somehow different. *Maybe* something like an 'export PATH=$PATH:/<path 
to your gnuplot binary>' will help?!

Another much better solution would be that you get another gnuplot binary 
release (eg. hpc.sourceforge.net, or HMUG). At the moment I'm trying to build a 
last Mac app ie. gnuplot.app 4.2 but you shouldn't wait for it because I'm at 
the very beginning and this may take some weeks...

We are also currently working to set up Michael's jhandles package from 
octave-forge, if this works fine then I think that I don't want to spend time 
anymore to build a gnuplot.app...

  Thomas

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