Hi all, Brand-spanking newbie here, just downloaded Octave about 20 minutes ago. As I'm on a Mac, I downloaded Octave.app (i386 version), which claims:
"Octave.app for Mac OS X is a ready to run binary version of GNU Octave. It runs on most of Apple's Mac OS X computers and comes with all the free libraries that are needed." Yet as soon as I get to page 8 of the documentation and attempt a "plot" command, I get: error: popen2 (child): unable to start process -- No such file or directory error: called from: error: /Applications/3rd-Party/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.2.3/m/plot/__gnuplot_open_stream__.m at line 28, column 44 error: /Applications/3rd-Party/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.2.3/m/plot/gnuplot_drawnow.m at line 85, column 19 sh: gnuplot: command not found error: you must have gnuplot installed to display graphics; if you have gnuplot installed in a non-standard location, see the 'gnuplot_binary' function This seems like an oversight to me; gnuplot is a free library, and appears to be needed, so it's supposed to come with Octave.app, no? I'm downloading and attempting to build/install gnuplot now, but to avoid tripping up future Mac users, it'd be great if you could include it with Octave.app. Best wishes, - Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
