Re: Octave for Mac OSX?

[Alois Schloegl]

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On 2015-09-03 21:02, Vic Norton wrote:
> What is the situation with Octave for Mac OSX?
> 1. Are their any ports of Octave 3.8 to OSX 10.10?


We did numerous installations of Octave 3.8.2 with homebrew on MacOSX
10.10.x. using the following steps:

  # 0) if you have Cask/Octave installed, remove it:
  brew cask uninstall octave
  brew cask cleanup
  # and continue with step 4

  # 1) Install XCode from App Store
  xcode-select --install

  # 2) install homebrew
  ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

  # 3) Install prerequisites and recommendations for Octave
  brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask
  brew cask install xquartz
  brew cask install mactex
  brew install curl

  # 4) install Octave
  brew tap homebrew/science
  export PATH="$PATH:/usr/texbin"
  brew install octave --with-docs

  # 5) start Octave
  # 5.1) from terminal
  octave
  octave --force-gui

  # 6) install additional packages (i.e. toolboxes).
  #    For example if you need the image processing toolbox, run
  pkg install -forge general
  pkg install -forge control
  pkg install -forge signal
  pkg install -forge image
  pkg load image

  # Other useful packages are:
  pkg install -forge bioinfo io ltfat nan struct optim splines
statistics symbolic tsa


The "--with-docs" argument in #4) is import for installing some
additional packages through octave's "pkg"  command.


> 2. Are their any ports of Octave 4.0 to OSX 10.10?

AFAIK, 4.0 is not in homebrew, yet.

> 3. How about OSX 10.11 when it comes out this fall?
> 4. Has anybody tried the VM installer for OSX 10.10 mentioned on
>      http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_MacOS_X
>    Is that the only recourse for OSX 10.10 or 10.11?
> 
> I'm really not worried about Octave 4.0, but I have to have at least
> 3.8. Functions within functions, which are required by my work, don't
> work in Octave versions < 3.8.
> 
> Any answers would be greatly appreciated. I'm on Mac OSX 10.9 right no
w,
> and my Octave 3.8.2 works fine. I will forgo buying a new iMac this fa
ll
> if I know Octave won't work on Mac OSX 10.11.


I do not recommend buying Macs; keep you 10.9, but for your next
computer you should really look into Linux, too. It's so much easier to
maintain. Steps 0-5 above can be done with one line

   apt-get install octave liboctave-dev

Personally, I'd recommend Debian, its stable and well tested, comes with
plenty of software, and has good support for upgrades.


Regards,
  Alois


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