<div dir="ltr"><div><font face="Arial">Just installed Macports with the intention of using it to install Octave. Obviously I'm very new as I'm a first timer.</font></div><div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><div>
<font face="Arial">When attempting to install Octave with command: sudo port install octave +atlas+docs, I get the Error: Processing of port octave failed.</font></div><div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial">Questions:</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">1. Does this mean that Octave was not installed at all?</font></div><div><font face="Arial"><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1a. Or does it mean that only the failed dependencies, (eg Error: The following dependencies were not installed: SuiteSparse atlas arpack gcc48 cctools ... ) were not installed?</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1b. If on the contrary Octave was installed except for dependencies, where could I find executable?</font></div><div><font face="Arial">2. What happened to all the dependencies that were installed eg Installing libxml2 @2.9.1_0 which had no errors?</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2a. Where were they installed?</font></div><div><font face="Arial">3. What do terms "Activating" and "Cleaning" (eg ---> Installing libtool @2.4.2_3 ---> Activating libtool @2.4.2_3) actually do?</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>3a. Do they overwrite libraries and files already there before this operation?</font></div><div><font face="Arial">4. If I decide to not attempt the port installation of Octave and try other means, how do I clean up?</font></div>
<div><br></div>-- <br>cheers,<br><br>Gio
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