Installing Octave on Mac OS X
I’ve just discovered a blog bost where the author was installing Octave on a Mac. Looks hard!
I compare it with Ubuntu’s installation method for Octave along with the symbolic package:
sudo apt-get install octave octave-symbolic
and wonder what is going wrong for it on Macs. Insights anyone?
I’m that author. Yes, it’s hard. Luckily for Ubuntu users, people have been kind enough to create installation packages. If someone compiled the packages I listed and published a PKG for it all, then it would be simple.
Unfortunately, it’s finals week here at George Mason. I don’t have time to create an Octave package like I have for Lua (http://yellosoft.us/index.php?id=64) and Wget (http://yellosoft.us/index.php?id=106).
There is a MacPort for Octave (http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=octave), but I can’t find a package for the symbolic library.
On Macs you can download the octave binary from http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20MacOSX%20Binary
Another way is to Install Macports
then
sudo port install octave
you can add the extensions as well like
sudo port install octave octave-parallel
I recommend you use Porticus GUI for Macports to make your life easy.