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
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