Re: octave forge packages on a mac

[Sebastian Schöps]

Lazy_Tom wrote
> when the octave 4.03 came out in .dmg the macPorts support was
> discontinued so I thought to remove the macPort version (keeping macPorts)
> and try the 4.03 on .dmg 

How do you come to this conclusion? As far as I know the macports port is
still under heavy development. The most recent version is 4.0.3. and you can
get it here:
https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/math/octave/Portfile 
If you were happy with macports, then there is no need to switch to the
app-bundle. The app-bundle is rather meant for beginners. If you get along
with macports I would recommend to continue using it.


Lazy_Tom wrote
> thrashing octave app and rerunning the .dmg would do the trick but the
> problem actually got worse. 

Trashing and reinstalling can hardly make a difference. User actions do not
modify the app-bundle, e.g. packages are installed in ~/octave. You must
have changed something else. 


Mike Miller-4 wrote
> LMGTFY, seems to be a common error on macOS systems that may point to a
> conflict between xcode and homebrew, or between homebrew and macports,
> or related.

I have not seen this error so far. Did you upgrade Xcode (Version 8)
recently?



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