
- #Install octave using macports for mac os#
- #Install octave using macports mac os x#
- #Install octave using macports install#
- #Install octave using macports update#
- #Install octave using macports upgrade#
#Install octave using macports install#
As it is, I just typed "sudo port install vlc", and MacPorts handled the rest, compiling not only VLC, but all the dependencies, and it used the right variants so that I ended up with a clickable program in my /Applications/MacPorts directory as well. Without MacPorts, I would need to download and compile by hand, and who knows what would have happened. As a simple example, I just used it to compile the latest bug-fix release of the VideoLAN media player (VLC 1.0.6), which is currently only available in source form.
#Install octave using macports upgrade#
I currently use it with a 10.5.8 PPC system, and will continue using it when I upgrade to a 10.6.x Intel. If MacPorts works great for you, excellent! If it doesn't, there are others, including (maybe limited to) the aforementioned Homebrew, and Fink. So: a port repository on your OS X machine is a Good Thing. I do know that it's very easy for me to install and manage ports and their dependencies. I really don't know whether the selection of Homebrew ports is as extensive as the selection of MacPorts.

Homebrew does the same basic thing as MacPorts, coded entirely in Ruby. My main need for the various ported programs and libraries was to assist in doing Ruby development, so I went with Homebrew (which does not appear to be available through MacUpdate). Having noted that, I had difficulty getting my MacPorts repository to the point where I could effortlessly type It's pretty much the closest one to an "official" repository, I think.
#Install octave using macports for mac os#
MacPorts is one of a few different ports repositories for Mac OS X. Set exit_status [process_cmd $remaining."ĭon't construe the following as a knock on MacPorts it isn't. # If there are remaining arguments, process those as a command "action_revupgrade $action $portlist $opts" (procedure "macports::revupgrade" line 5) "revupgrade_scanandrebuild broken_port_counts $opts" (procedure "revupgrade_scanandrebuild" line 382) opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_release_ports_www_webkit-gtk/webkit-gtk/main.log Please see the log file for port webkit-gtk for details: your ~/.octaverc.When I try to install Pallet, I get a failure.Įrror: for port webkit-gtk returned: command execution failed To make this the standard behavior append both commands in one of Octave's startup files e.g. For using the nicer wxt-terminal of Gnuplot, type setenv("GNUTERM","wxt") in Octave. Type graphics_toolkit('gnuplot') in Octave before plotting.

The variant installed may be important to the user's experience.Note that octave-devel has been replaced by octave, see MacPorts Revision 114034.The entire installation process can take a few hours. Octave has many dependencies which will be downloaded and installed prior to Octave. To install the most recent version of Octave, type sudo port install octave or if you want the experimental graphic user interface (GUI) sudo port install octave +gui at the Terminal's command line. A list of what MacPorts has available for Octave is here.
#Install octave using macports update#
If you had installed Mac Ports in the past already, update it first by typing sudo port selfupdate and sudo port upgrade outdated in the terminal.Install "XCode" via the Mac App Store and the "XCode Command Line Tools" as described at MacPorts' installation instructions.employees including Landon Fuller, Kevin Van Vechten, and Jordan Hubbard. Similar in aim and function to Fink and the BSDs' ports collections, DarwinPorts was started in 2002 as part of the OpenDarwin project, with the involvement of a number of Apple Inc. It is a free/open source software project to simplify installation of other free/open source software.
#Install octave using macports mac os x#
MacPorts, formerly called DarwinPorts, is a package management system that simplifies the installation of software on the Mac OS X and Darwin operating systems.
