Re: Octave install on Mac OS X 10.8.5

[Frank O]

On 10/12/2014 8:37 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> I've registered at Apple's developer site and found the Mountain Lion 
> development tools at the link below. 
> https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action
Thanks much. I successfully obtained the development tools there, but 
find that installation via the package managers is not a simple process 
--  there seem to be a number of adjusments required here and there, one 
of the package managers indicates that I need to know the path to 
Xcode.app (which Finder can't find on my machine), etc. I think I will 
need to spend some time getting to know the terminal side of the Mac 
better to make this work.

Ironically, I was able to get the Windows port of Octave running fine 
and drawing plots under Parallels on the Mac, which solves the immediate 
need. But I do want to get it worked out the other way.

The full-disk encryption, incidentally, is not Apple. I'm told I'll have 
to give up my Mac for at least a couple of days to have the data 
decrypted, the Mavericks upgrade done, then data reencrypted. Thus why I 
haven't upgraded yet.