Hi all. My problem with installing octave on a mac had a lot to do with how long I've owned this machine's history.
I owned a mac back in the powerPC days, and copied over old files through upgrades and to another machine before I bought this machine and did yet more upgrades. Some files dated to OS 10.4 and back to 2005. The procedures below are seriously nuclear, but they are, from my experience, necessary when your computer has been around as long as mine has. (Also, I offer no promises that this procedure works, and less than none that it will have no consequences for other software.) So, here goes: 1) MacPorts and Fink don't get along when it comes to octave - you most certainly want to delete pretty much anything you ever installed through MacPorts or DarwinPorts and reinstall it with fink. The delete takes about 20 minutes or so. sudo port -fp uninstall --follow-dependents installed sudo rm -rf \ /opt/local \ /Applications/DarwinPorts \ /Applications/MacPorts \ /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.* \ /Library/Receipts/DarwinPorts*.pkg \ /Library/Receipts/MacPorts*.pkg \ /Library/StartupItems/DarwinPortsStartup \ /Library/Tcl/darwinports1.0 \ /Library/Tcl/macports1.0 \ ~/.macports 2) Search for any old "octave" data and delete it - check these folders or do a general search: /usr/local/lib /usr/local/libexec /sw/lib 3) Install fink - this is pretty fast, maybe 10-20 minutes. xcode-select -switch /path/to/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer cd $HOME/Downloads tar -xvf fink-0.32.6.tar.gz cd fink-0.32.6 ./bootstrap /sw/bin/pathsetup.sh fink selfupdate-rsync fink index -f 4) install octave - this takes several hours. fink install bundle-octave362 octave362-dev Hope this is helpful, cheers DD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
