Monday, 29 November 2010

Octave in Snow Leopard

When I opened Octave on my Mac this morning, I realised I wasn't able to plot. Quite worrying. It was working before, so why is it not working now? The problem it turns out is that the upgrade to Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6) introduces some problems (64 vs 32 bits stuff apparently). This is mentioned on the Octave-Forge website and more precisely here.

Before you follow the instructions posted on this last website, it's probably a good idea to take some time to upgrade your version of Octave and Gnuplot (included in the Octave distribution).

Update 05/03/2012: I updated Octave to v3.4.0 and found that Gnuplot had the same problem. I followed the fix above but, this time, it didn't work.

What I do now is to resort to the OpenGL/FLTK package, with the line

graphics_toolkit('fltk')

at the Octave prompt.

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