Re: Running Octave from Fink?

[Ev Yemini]

Hi Alexander and all,

It turns out fink was failing for the install but, because of the size
of the command window, the message looked to me like success.

In a scene reminiscent of South Park's Humancentipad episode, I simply
scanned the Xcode license, didn't read any of it, and hit return
*muliple times* before realizing my mistake. Why anyone would make the
end user type out "agree" I'll never know, but I suppose this is the
unhappy offspring of a command line wedded to an EULA.

Right now I'm waiting on a marathon install session of ATLAS. It's
been about 5 hours so far (including dependencies) and it still seems
obsessed with reading my L1 cache, so I hope this ends well.

Despite my pathetic sarcasm, I do want to thank everyone for their
great help. I understand the nightmares associated with software
engineering and I greatly appreciate the hard work, selflessness, and
goodwill that went into producing the programs I'm about to use.

I'll send out a quick email when everything's done as another thank you.

Many thanks & all the best,
Ev



On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Alexander Hansen
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 11/5/12 8:19 AM, Ev Yemini wrote:
>> Typing "octave" in the terminal is the very first thing I tried ;) It
>> doesn't work.
>>
>> I also tried "octave-atlas", "octave-3.6.3", "octave-core", and
>> various combinations replacing "octave" with "oct".
>>
>> Coming from a Unix background (longer ago than I care to remember) I
>> went looking for the obscure command that rebuilds my database for
>> "locate". Perhaps it would bring the location for the binary? No such
>> luck as grepping "locate octave" for "usr" or "bin" produce paths to
>> what are clearly not binaries.
>>
>> What am I missing?
>>
>> I've run everything up to and including "fink install control-atlas-oct362".
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Ev
>>
>
> Fink doesn't install stuff in /usr.  You can use "dpkg -L <packagename>"
> to see what got installed where by a package.
>
> As your command try "octave-3.6.2", if you installed
> control-atlas-oct362, because that should mean that you have
> octave362-atlas installed.
>
> If you the "octave" command to point to octave-3.6.2, then you can use
> "fink install octave-3.6.2"; otherwise "octave" points to the latest
> version currently in Fink, which is octave-3.6.3.
>
> --
> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
> Fink User Liaison
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