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octave + aqua terminal + gnuplot on OS X

April 12th, 2007

Installing Octave on OS X (intel) with gnuplot.

1.) Install the pre-built binaries for octave from HPC Mac OS X

2.) Install aqua term

3.) The pre-built binaries for gnuplot do not seem to work adequatley with aqua term and octave at the current time, so download the source for the newest version of gnuplot

4.) Untar the source files and open a terminal shell in the new directory and excute the following commands*

export CFLAGS='-arch i386'
export LDFLAGS='-arch i386'
./configure --with-readline=builtin
make
sudo make install

Afterwords, every thing should be working fine, test it out in octave with:

plot((-10:10).^2)

* Thanks to Nick Vox for this information.

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