From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Feb  2 01:46:20 2004
Subject: Re: octave-forge on Mac OS X
From: Nathan Weisz <Nathan dot Weisz at uni-konstanz dot de>
To: "Henry F. Mollet" <mollet at pacbell dot net>
Cc: David Bateman <David dot Bateman at motorola dot com>,    Octave_post <help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 08:41:59 +0100

Hi Henry,

> Within about 1 year octave went from 2.1.36? to 2.1.53 and therefore 
> version
> 2.1.46 is already considered old?

I needed the new version mainly because of its ability to handle 
n-dimensional matrices. So I looked if there was an easy to install 
binary.

> 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.

Wish there would be something for me to handle :-)
Simply had to download the tar-file and type two commands into a 
terminal window (untar and adding /usr/local/bin to the Path). The 
instructions are given and can really go wrong (installed it on 3 
machines in our work group by now).
http://hpc.sourceforge.net/

However, I have not installed Octave-forge yet.

Best,

N



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