On Sep 8, 2012, at 12:26 PM, Miriam Heller wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Ben Abbott <
address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> *** Please REPLY-ALL and respond at the bottom to allow those who arrive late to follow along ***
>>
>> On Sep 8, 2012, at 11:45 AM, Miriam Heller wrote:
>>
>> > On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Ben Abbott <
address@hidden> wrote:
>> >> *** Please REPLY-ALL and respond at the bottom to allow those who arrive late to follow along ***
>> >>
>> >> On Sep 8, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Miriam Heller wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > On 9/8/12 11:10 AM, "Ben Abbott" <
address@hidden> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> On Sep 8, 2012, at 3:28 AM, avatarmh wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >>> Please help me! I also am in the Coursera course and would like to take it
>> >> >>> and learn. Unfortunately, I can't get Octave to work at all now. I know
>> >> >>> nothing about Mac OSX. I know how to double-click on dmg files and have them
>> >> >>> work. I don't understand anything anyone has suggested that involves more
>> >> >>> than that. Also, when I see ">" I don't know where they are. Finally, I
>> >> >>> don't know what bash, profile, etc. are. Please help me take this course,
>> >> >>> which is nothing without a plotting capability.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> First, I followed the original instructions, which entailed loading
>> >> >>> (double-clicking on the icons of) Octave and gnuplot. Octave worked. I put
>> >> >>> in an instruction at the prompt and it was interpreted.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Then I tried the "plot" function. Like the two posts before me, nothing
>> >> >>> happened, then finally I got similar errors as my fellow students above.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Next, someone put XQuartz up on the installation site and said that was what
>> >> >>> I needed. I loaded (double-clicked on) it. I reloaded Octave and gnuplot. I
>> >> >>> double-clicked on Octave in my applicaitons folder and now I get the
>> >> >>> following:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> --------------
>> >> >>> Last login: Sat Sep 8 03:20:27 on ttys000
>> >> >>> exec '/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'
>> >> >>> Macintosh-34159e0b8e58:~ MiriamHeller$ exec
>> >> >>> '/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'
>> >> >>> dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
>> >> >>> Referenced from:
>> >> >>> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave-3.4.0
>> >> >>> Reason: image not found
>> >> >>> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave: line 68: 1793
>> >> >>> Trace/BPT trap OCTAVE_HOME="${OCTAVE_HOME}" PATH="${PATH}"
>> >> >>> DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}" CC="${CC}" CXX="${CXX}"
>> >> >>> CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS}" CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS}"
>> >> >>> FFLAGS="${FFLAGS}" LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}" DL_LDFLAGS="${DL_LDFLAGS}"
>> >> >>> SED="$SED" MAGICK_HOME="${ROOT}" FONTCONFIG_PATH="${ROOT}/etc/fonts"
>> >> >>> "${ROOT}/bin/octave-3.4.0" "$@"
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> [Process completed]
>> >> >>> -----------------------------
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> So now I can't even use MatLab.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Please help me. I will officially be behind on Monday, when I won't have
>> >> >>> been able to go through the Octave Tutorial, Review Questions, and
>> >> >>> Programming Problem.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> I'd do anything if this could be interactive.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Know that you'd have an enormously appreciative person, if you could help
>> >> >>> me. I've been at this over a week now.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Thank you in advance in anticipation of you helping me.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Miriam,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Please avoid hijacking threads started by others. You should start your own.
>> >> >> I've changed the subject to describe your problem.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> To start, please tell us your MacOS X version.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> It appears to me that you've broken your X11 by installing XQuartz. To verify
>> >> >> ...
>> >> >>
>> >> >> (1) run /Applications/Utilities/Terminal
>> >> >> (2) At the command line type "xeyes"
>> >> >> (3) Tell us what happens
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Ben
>> >> >
>> >> > Dear Ben,
>> >> >
>> >> > Thank you infinitely for responding, starting a debug as well as a new
>> >> > thread (which I'd love to know how to find). Then I'd put this email in
>> >> > there.
>> >> >
>> >> > I think I ran what you suggested. I think the first command was meant to
>> >> > pull up a terminal window using. If not please let me know.
>> >> >
>> >> > This is what I got:
>> >> >
>> >> > Last login: Sat Sep 8 03:25:06 on ttys000
>> >> > Macintosh-34159e0b8e58:~ MiriamHeller$ run /Applications/Utilities/Terminal
>> >> > -bash: run: command not found
>> >>
>> >> You are already running the Terminal
>> >>
>> >> > Macintosh-34159e0b8e58:~ MiriamHeller$ xeyes
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> What happened when your entered "xeyes" ?
>> >>
>> >> Ben
>> >
>> > Sorry - I didn't answer your main question (I'm a Team Leaders for the election and today is our "Weekend of Action". That is I'm juggling.)
>> >
>> > The response was two big cartoon eyes that follow my cursor.
>> >
>> > Miriam
>>
>> Ok. Good.
>>
>> Looks like your X11 is working, but now have no idea what happened to your Matlab installation. You may need to contact Mathworks technical support.
>>
>> I'll see what can be done to get your Octave running.
>>
>> Please tell us what version of MacOS X are you running?
>>