Re: install pkg

[James Russell]

Ben,

Okay, I tried fink.  I ran into a roadblock where it required Java be updated, 
I updated Java Runtime Environment, which is what it indicated, and got no 
progress.  A helpful supporter over at fink said not JRE, JDK, which it appears 
is Java Development Environment.  As I spelled out over at that forum there is 
no clear path to a JDK for Mac OS X 10.10.1 - not to say that there is no such 
thing, just that it is not clear where to find it.

I've spent non-trivial parts of days now trying to get Octave running on Mac OS 
X 10.10.1.  Can you tell me how to install JDK to get fink running to get 
..............?

Thanks,

Jim



> On Nov 28, 2014, at 6:12 AM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On Nov 28, 2014, at 9:01 AM, c. <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> On 28 Nov 2014, at 13:01, ESMERALDA PODA <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> Here are the info:
>>> OSX Yosemite 10.10.
>>> Attached you find details about XCode
>> 
>> from what you previously posted I infer you are using the 
>> 3.8.0 binary distribution for OS X 10.9 (Mavericks), downloaded
>> forom OctaveForge, is that correct?
>> 
>> That version is not meant for use on OSX 10.10 Yosemite, 
>> if it happens to work that is by pure accident, but I doubt you
>> will ever be able to install packages with it.
>> 
>> You need to reinstall Octave in order to be able to compile
>> the io package, currently the best options you have to do so
>> are via a package manager like Fink [1], Macports [2] or homebrew [3].
>> 
>> I will probably  prepare a release of Octave 3.8.2 for OSX 10.10 
>> some time (late) next month, so if you are not confortable using a
>> package manager you may want to wait for that.
>> 
>> c.
>> 
>> [1] http://www.finkproject.org/
>> [2] https://www.macports.org/
>> [3] http://brew.sh/
> 
> For Yosemite, I strongly encourage using Fink.  The help-list full of many 
> examples of individuals having trouble with both homebrew and Macports on 
> Yosemite.
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
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