Octave

[Robert Fong-tom]

On Nov 22, 2008, at 11:42 AM, William Davis wrote:

>
> On Nov 22, 2008, at 11:15 AM, Robert Fong-tom wrote:
>
>>
>> On Nov 22, 2008, at 10:09 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 22, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Robert Fong-tom wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I recently ported Octave successfully but there are some things  
>>>> which
>>>> I don't understand. My understanding is that Aquaterm is a  
>>>> dependency
>>>> of octave and that it would be installed as a part of theh Octave
>>>> port. In fact, when I tried to port Octave the first time it failed
>>>> because I had Aquaterm installed previously. After deleting  
>>>> Aquaterm
>>>> (and all files relating to it) manually, the porting of Octave was
>>>> successful. However, I don't seem to be able to call Aquaterm. A
>>>> number of files relating to Aquaterm was ported along with Octave
>>>> however. Right now I am plotting via X11 but would like to  
>>>> switch to
>>>> plotting via Aquaterm since it produces better looking plots.
>>>> Bob
>>>
>>> in your .profile, .bashrc, .xinitrc or what ever shell startup  
>>> script you are using, be sure that GNUTERM is set to "aqua"
>>>
>>> 	set GNUTERM=aqua
>>>
>>> Ben
>>>
>>>
>> I tried the following:
>>
>> In .bashrc:
>> 	export GNUTERM=aqua
>>
>> and in .profile
>>
>> 	# Make aqua the default
>> 	export GNUTERM=aqua
>>
>> 	##
>> 	# Your previous /Users/robert/.profile file was backed up as / 
>> Users/robert/.profile.macports-saved_2008-11-20_at_19:39:45
>> 	##
>>
>> 	# MacPorts Installer addition on 2008-11-20_at_19:39:45: adding  
>> an appropriate PATH variable for use with MacPorts.
>> 	export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
>> 	# Finished adapting your PATH environment variable for use with  
>> MacPorts.
>>
>>
>> 	# MacPorts Installer addition on 2008-11-20_at_19:39:45: adding  
>> an appropriate DISPLAY variable for use with MacPorts.
>> 	export DISPLAY=:0
>> 	# Finished adapting your DISPLAY environment variable for use  
>> with MacPorts.
>>
>> When I try to plot in Octave I get the following message:
>> 	
>> 	Unknown or ambiguous terminal name 'aqua'
>>
>> Then a long list of invalid gnuplot commands
>>
>> Bob
>
> Bob:
> Which version of Mac OS X are you using?  If it's 10.5.x then you  
> should not have the line:
> export Display=:0
> in any of your startup files.  OS 10.5 sets the DISPLAY value  
> itself to something like DISPLAY = /tmp/launch-l0g0wa/:0
> Also are you sure you downloaded the correct macports .dmg file for  
> your operating system. There are different .dmgs for OS 10.3, 10.4,  
> and 10.5 PPC/Intel.
>
> good luck
>
>
> William Davis
> frstanATbellsouthDOTnet
> Mac OS X.5.5 Darwin 9.5.0
> XQuartz 2.3.2_rc1 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple23)
> Mac Mini Intel Duo @ 1.86 GHz
>
> Mundus vult decepi, ego non
>

As I said in a previous email I am running OS X 10.4.11 on a Intel  
MacBook Pro. My GNUPLOT was not ported from MacPorts. I was  
downloaded earlier (before porting Octave). It is one rev behind (ver  
4.4 patchlevel 3) current level..

Since GNUPLOT is a dependence of Octave, should this matter that it  
was not ported via MacPorts?

  If I port GNULOT now from MacPorts will it work automatically with  
Octave?

  Or do I have to make some changes to the .profile and .bashrc file?