Re: Installation of Octave on MacBook Pro under OS X Mountain Lion

[Glenn Eychaner]

On Apr 12, 2013, at 8:54 PM, address@hidden wrote:

> Lukas has already given you good advice.  But I'll mention we have a wiki 
> page on Octave and MacOS X.
> 
>       http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_MacOS_X
> 
> At the bottom of that page is a warning about the sourceforge binaries.  They 
> will not run for you on MacOS 10.8.  Since Homebrew has dropped support 
> (temporarily?) for Octave, your choices are to use Macports (if you have 
> trouble, please report the problem to the Macports guys), or Fink.  At 
> present, Fink has the latest version available (3.6.4) and Macports is a bit 
> behind (3.6.3).   If you encounter problems with Fink installing Octave, 
> please report the problem to Fink guys.  You are free to report it here as 
> well, but you are likely to get a quicker response on from Fink.


In addition, I maintain a set of scripts and instructions for installing a 
number of astronomical software packages under Mac OS X at 
http://www.lco.cl/Members/geychaner/.  One of the packages in Octave, and I 
just recently updated the instructions and scripts for 3.6.4.

-G.
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Glenn Eychaner (address@hidden)
Telescope Systems Programmer, Las Campanas Observatory