From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Jan 30 13:05:35 2004
Subject: Re: octave-forge on Mac OS X
From: "Henry F. Mollet" <mollet at pacbell dot net>
To: Nathan Weisz <Nathan dot Weisz at uni-konstanz dot de>,    Octave_post <help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
CC: David Bateman <David dot Bateman at motorola dot com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:59:17 -0800

I'm still using octave 2.1.46 without octave-forge as installed with Fink in
Dec 2003 as the available version for Mac OS 10.2.8.
I keep getting confused about a number of issues:

Octave vs. octave-forge?
Apparently there's more to it than a number of additional .m files?
Within about 1 year octave went from 2.1.36? to 2.1.53 and therefore version
2.1.46 is already considered old?
CVS installation to get the latest version of octave?
Is there such a thing as "Regular" vs. CVS installation?
Additional difficulties to install octave on Mac, although Nathan was able
to handle it. I used Fink in Dec. 2003 and octave 2.1.46 without
octave-forge is what was installed.
I believe I understand installation from Source vs, Binary installation.
Henry




on 1/28/04 8:16 AM, Nathan Weisz at Nathan dot Weisz at uni-konstanz dot de wrote:

> Thanks again. The freshest binary version 2.1.53 from
> http://hpc.sourceforge.net/
> does install octave & mkoctfile under /usr/local/bin. The other one I
> was talking about was an "experimental" binary I got from the
> maintainer of hpc (Gaurav Khanna).
> 
> BTW: Thank you, thank you, thank you to all the great octave-developers
> making nxm matrix operations now possible!!!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Nathan
> 
> 
> Am 28.01.2004 um 16:08 schrieb David Bateman:
> 
>> In fact reading again, there is an additional problem, that mkoctfile
>> isn't on your path...
>> 
>> you should probably add /usr/local/octave/bin to your path. Try
>> something
>> like
>> 
>> export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/octave/bin
>> 
> 
> 
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