Thank you sir, it worked perfectly. I have an old install folder, and I didn't realize that I was looking in the wrong path. I didn't know how to check for the PATH.
Much obliged :) El oct 22, 2011, a las 1:22 p.m., Marshall Hampton escribió: > The octave application has to be in your path (or more precisely, the > PATH variable used by Sage). > > In the notebook, you can see what PATH Sage is using by putting this > into a cell: > > %sh > echo $PATH > > In my case - using a mac with the Octave app inside a folder / > Applications/Octave/, I could do > > sudo ln -s /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/ > octave /usr/local/binoctave > > and it would then work in Sage, since /usr/local/bin is in the PATH > that Sage uses. > > Hope that helps, > Marshall Hampton > > On Oct 20, 7:52 pm, Jaasiel Ornelas <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi! >> I'm trying to access Octave thru the worksheet, but I get the error: >> >> RuntimeError: Unable to start octave >> >> I already made a symlink linking /opt/local/bin/octave to / >> Applications/sage/local/bin/octave, but that didn't work. Am I using >> the wrong PATH? >> >> Also, I set up octave using macports, so I can run octave from the >> prompt by just typing 'octave', so I don't get why I would have to >> make a symlink. >> >> Any help is appreciated. >> >> -Jaasiel > > -- > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -San Pom Pon Maestro de los San Pom Pones -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
