I am completely lost - I want to install Octave and Gnuplot on a 10.6.8
Mac. I have tried installing octave and gnuplot directly, I have tried
dselect, FinkCommander, and apt-get. All to no avail.
I have installed Octave and gnuplot before getting Fink, but I get
"warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost”. Octave finds gnuplot
but won’t plot.
So, I tried Fink:
Installing fink was straightforward, but I figure out how to use it to
install Octace and gnuplot. I first tried dselect (because it was the
first suggestion in http://www.finkproject.org/doc/users-guide/index.php
When I ran dselect (or sudo dselect) I get a list of packages, but could
not find either octave, gnuplot or the sci directory where they are
supposed to be. See “Appendix A)” below for details.
One of the messages in this mailing list, and the responses thereto,
suggested that dselect was hard to use. So, I tried FinkCommander next.
The first four or five times I tried FinkCommander, it told me that my
package database was corrupted and suggested running “fink index -f” even
after I ran "fink index f”. See Appendix B) below for details.
Now (only a few hours later) FinkCommander works better but I can’t find
octave, gnuplot or sci in FinkCommander either. (They are supported by
Fink see http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/octave and
http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/gnuplot )
Appendix A) - the packages listed by dselect:
─── Up to date installed packages ───
───── Up-to-date Required packages ─────
─────── Up-to-date Required packages in section base ───────
*** Req base base-files 1.9.12-1 1.9.12-1 Directory
infrastructure
*** Req base bzip2 1.0.6-1 1.0.6-1 Block-sorting file
compressor
*** Req base bzip2-shlibs 1.0.6-1 1.0.6-1 Shared libraries for
bzip2 package
*** Req base debianutils 1.23-11 1.23-11 Misc. utilities
specific to Debian (and Fink)
*** Req base dpkg 1.10.21-122 1.10.21-122 The Debian package
manager
*** Req base dpkg-base-fi 0.3-1 0.3-1 Support scripts for
dpkg
*** Req base fink 0.31.5-51 0.31.5-51 Open-source software
package manager
*** Req base fink-mirrors 0.31.2.1-1 0.31.2.1-1 Mirror
infrastructure
*** Req base gzip 1.4-2 1.4-2 File-compression
program
*** Req base libgettext3- 0.14.5-4 0.14.5-4 GNU
Internationalization utils (shared libs)
*** Req base libiconv 1.12-4 1.12-4 Character set
conversion library
*** Req base libiconv-bin 1.12-4 1.12-4 Executables for
libiconv package
*** Req base libncurses5- 5.9-2011050 5.9-2011050 Shared libraries for
libncurses5 package
*** Req base ncurses 5.9-2011050 5.9-2011050 Executable files for
libncurses5
*** Req base tar 1.26-1 1.26-1 Archiving program
for files and tape
*** Req base unzip 6.0-1 6.0-1 Decompression
compatible with pkunzip
───── Up-to-date Important packages ─────
─────── Up-to-date Important packages in section base ───────
*** Imp base apt 0.5.4-1060 0.5.4-1060 Advanced front-end
for dpkg
*** Imp base apt-shlibs 0.5.4-1060 0.5.4-1060 Advanced front-end
for dpkg
───── Up-to-date Optional packages ─────
─────── Up-to-date Optional packages in section base ───────
*** Opt base apt-dev 0.5.4-1060 0.5.4-1060 Advanced front-end
for dpkg
*** Opt base bzip2-dev 1.0.6-1 1.0.6-1 Developer files for
bzip2 package
*** Opt base gettext-bin 0.17-19 0.17-19 GNU
Internationalization utils
*-- Opt base libgettext3- 0.14.5-4 0.14.5-4 GNU
Internationalization utils (Development Files)
All packages
The line you have highlighted represents many packages; if you ask to
install, remove, hold, &c it you will affect all
the packages which match the criterion shown.
If you move the highlight to a line for a particular package you will see
information about that package displayed
here. You can use `o' and `O' to change the sort order and give yourself
the opportunity to mark packages in different
kinds of groups.
Appendix B) First attempts to run FinkCommander
sudo /Applications/FinkCommander.app/Contents/MacOS/FinkCommander
It appears that Fink's package database is corrupted. Please run 'fink
index -f' to recreate it.
2011-12-07 16:27:44.711 FinkCommander[47076:e07] Checking for FinkCommander
update
ken-stanleys-macbook-pro-2:~ kenstanley$ fink index -f
Scanning package description files..........
ken-stanleys-macbook-pro-2:~ kenstanley$ sudo !!
*sudo fink index -f*
Scanning package description files..........
ken-stanleys-macbook-pro-2:~ kenstanley$ sudo
/Applications/FinkCommander.app/Contents/MacOS/FinkCommander
It appears that Fink's package database is corrupted. Please run 'fink
index -f' to recreate it.
2011-12-07 16:28:38.875 FinkCommander[47097:e07] Checking for FinkCommander
update
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ken Stanley <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:21 PM
Subject: "sudo apt-get install octave” fails on a 10.6.8 Mac
To:
"sudo apt-get install octave” fails -
sudo apt-get install octave
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package octave
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