Octave

[Robert Fong-tom]

On Nov 23, 2008, at 10:42 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:

>
> On Nov 23, 2008, at 10:24 AM, Robert Fong-tom wrote:
>
>>
>> On Nov 22, 2008, at 11:57 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 09:47:55PM -0500, Robert Fong-tom said:
>>> [...]
>>>> is placed in the .profile and .bashrc file but this isn't seem  
>>>> to be
>>>> working for me since I get the terminal type set to 'unknown'
>>>> report when
>>>> I type /opt/local/bin/gnuplot. Oh! I just notices that when I  
>>>> called
>>>> gnuplot as in the previous statement I get
>>>>
>>>> Unknown or ambigious terminal name 'aqua'
>>>>
>>>> before the GNUPLOT preamble printout. Don't know what this
>>>> means ... do
>>>> you?
>>>
>>> If it isn't saying "Terminal type set to 'aqua'" then it sounds
>>> like gnuplot
>>> didn't see aquaterm properly.  Since you went through some
>>> machinations to
>>> get to this point, you may have installed gnuplot before aquaterm  
>>> was
>>> properly installed via MacPorts.  In that case, just uninstall and
>>> reinstall
>>> gnuplot, see if that does it.
>>>
>>> Bryan
>>>
>> Gnuplot was installed as a dependent of Octave. If I uninstall it
>> wont this "break" this dependency so that Octave won't be able to
>> plot anymore?
>
> Uninstall gnuplot using the "-f" option (forces an uninstall but  
> does not remove the ports that depend upon gnuplot).
>
> 	sudo port -f uninstall gnuplot
>
> I've not used MacPorts myself. I'm trusting its documentation.
>
> 	http://guide.macports.org/#using.port
>
> Then reinstall gnuplot.
>
> 	sudo port install gnuplot
>
> Ben
>
>
Thanks Ben, this worked. I think I now have a fully function Octave.  
Now to port some packages :)

Thanks again to all!