octave on MAC OS X

About

octave is a GNU project which is a kind of alternative for MatLab. Below covers how I install this stuff in my MBA.

Tutorials

Since I am using port, I follow guides from the official wiki here. Below are the actual commands I have typed.

sudo port selfupdate
sudo port upgrade outdated

sudo port install octave
sudo port install octave +gui

sudo port install arpack -accelerate+atlas

If you can run below commands successfully, congratulation. This post is end. However, if you have gotchas like me, checkout below notes.

Gotcha

• There are errors like missing fortran compiler

    port install gcc49
  

Gcc other than 49 may work too. But I test with this one.

• There are errors like missing tex

   port install texlive-basic
   port install texlive-latex
  

After running above calls, run again

   port install octave

It should fix all the problems.

Open octave

You can simply type octave in your spotlight and octave will be there.

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