Re: Failure to port Octave

[Jonathan Stickel]

This is a macports issue.  You should ask these things on the 
macports-users email list and not on the help-octave list!


On 11/21/08 address@hidden wrote:
> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:38:45 -0500
> From: Robert Fong-tom <address@hidden>
> Subject: Failure to port Octave
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Message-ID: <address@hidden>
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> Hi,
> I tried to port Octave using MacPorts the port failed because of the  
> following error.
>
> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /Library/ 
> Frameworks/AquaTerm.framework/AquaTerm already exists and does not  
> belong to a registered port.  Unable to activate port aquaterm.
> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gnuplot aquaterm  
> gd2 autoconf help2man p5-locale-gettext perl5.8 m4 automake jpeg  
> libtool pdflib gsed hdf5 pcre qhull texinfo lzmautils texlive  
> texlive_base texi2html texlive_texmf-full texlive_texmf-minimal
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
> Does anyone know what this means?

I think you have aquaterm.app installed manually (bundled with 
octave.app from your dmg install?).  You need to uninstall it and try again.

Jonathan