Re: Error downloading fltk-1.3.2-source.tar.gz during Octave installation on Mac OS X Mountain Lion

[Andrew Janke]

On Apr 26, 2013, at 1:45 PM, Andrew Janke <address@hidden> wrote:

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> On Apr 25, 2013, at 7:59 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> On Apr 26, 2013, at 12:24 AM, AndrewJanke wrote:
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>>> Homebrew has not dropped Octave support.
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>>> Cheers,
>>> Andrew
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>> Andrew,
>> 
>> Thanks for correcting our misunderstanding!  This is good news!
>> 
>> May I ask for a favor?  Would you review and then modify our simplified 
>> install instructions on the wiki?
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>>      http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_MacOS_X#Homebrew
>> 
>> Thanks again!
>> Ben
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> Sure! Once the suite-sparse 4.2.0 fix works its way in to the release 
> (hopefully in a day or two) I'll bring the Wiki up to date with current 
> instructions for installing under Homebrew.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrew

Homebrew's suite-sparse 4.2.0 fix is out now.

I've updated the wiki. I think you will like the revisions. 

Most of the existing installation instructions were there to work around the 
suite-sparse bug, which has been fixed, and I've removed them. The new 
installation process under Homebrew is basically the following:

* get Homebrew and XCode installed
* brew tap homebrew/science
* brew update && brew upgrade
* brew install gfortran
* brew install octave

If you've already got Homebrew installed, you'll still need to do the "brew 
update && brew upgrade" to pick up the suite-sparse fix. And if you're an older 
homebrew user, you will need to do the "brew tap homebrew/science" to pick up 
the new namespace where octave and suite-sparse live. (Sorry for the 
inconvenience.)

That ought to work now. If you are having trouble, let us know via the bug 
reporting link I added to the wiki and we'll address it.

Cheers,
Andrew