I used homebrew to install octave, rebooted machine. I can run plots successfully and see the graphs render normally. When I go to print them, the document saves with the legend and axes, but the body of the graph is solid black. I have tried this with png, pdf and jpg formats - all the same.
I do get a message that fig2dev binary is not available. I have searched for what I am missing but seem to have everything installed from homebrew that octave needs.
Any help would be appreciated.
It seems there is a problem with gnuplot 5 and Macs (see the bug report). I was able to solve this by doing as suggested in the link and downgrading to gunplot version 4.6.6
brew switch gnuplot 4.6.6
This answer has lots of good info on installing specific versions of software in homebrew.
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I have the 4.0.3 Octave version on my machine.
and I would like to upgrade my version using windows.
Can someone tell me please the steps to follow?
Thanks.
If you want to remove v4.0.3, the complete answer will depend on how you installed that version in the first place.
If you used an executable installer, then there should be an 'uninstall' option available. On Windows 10, you can sometimes right click on the shortcut in the startmenu and an Uninstall option will appear. Otherwise you can follow the directions at this link to navigate through the Settings to the Apps & Features window, which lists everything installed and will provide an Uninstall option.
If you used a zip package to 'install' Octave 4.0.3 just by unzipping it to a folder on your hard drive, then no uninstall process is necessary. you can just delete the folder and shortcuts manually.
You can have multiple octave versions installed next to each other, the folders will have version numbers to prevent them from overwriting themselves.
To install the latest version (5.1.0 as of this answer, although 5.2.0 will be released very soon):
You can find the installation files for Windows by going to the Octave download page and clicking 'Windows'. There will be several file options there. Most people choose the first one (octave-5.1.0-w64-installer.exe) for 64bit systems. You can just download that or one of the other .exe versions, execute that program, and follow the prompts. If for some reason you would rather download a zip package and do a manual setup, I suggest you follow the instructions at the Octave for Microsoft Windows Wiki page to make sure everything is configured correctly.
I have TeXmacs and Octave installed, both working properly otherwise. I have also added the path to octave executable (i.e. C:\Octave\Octave-5.1.0.0\mingw64\bin) to the Windows environment variables and octave runs in cmd/PowerShell terminals and Jupyter with no hassle. However, when running Octave inside TeXmacs through Toolbar > insert > session > octave it gets stuck on Busy..., the same reaction for any other commands as well:
Octave gets stuk on Busy... inside TeXmacs.
This is my environment:
TeXmacs 1.99.9
Octave 5.1.0 (installed through Chocolatey)
Windows 10 version 1809
I would appreciate if you could help me know what is the problem and how I can solve it.
P.S. I have reported this issue in the TeXmacs repo.
#Foad. I wrote an updated Octave plugin for Texmacs. I tried it on Windows, OSX and Linux, works on the systems I have access to. If you are interested to test it, you can download the zipped archive from here https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/texmacs-dev/2019-12/msg00005.html.
To install it, unzip the archive and copy the octaveX directory in the application plugins folder, alongside all the plugins that come with the standard Texmacs installation. Won’t work if installed in ~/.Texmacs/plugins. If everything goes fine, you should find a new Insert/Session/OctaveX menu (note: I changed the session name). If not, try to refresh the plugin system with the menu Tools/Update/Plugins. If you try it, please let me know, especially if you find troubles. In case I will do my best to fix them.
A fundamental prerequisite is a working octave-cli command in a operating system shell. Should be standard on Linux, may require some additional setup on Windows (environmental variables) or OSX (.bash_profile). You can find some help and more details under the menu Help/Plug-ins/OctaveX.
Concerning the error you found, as far I understand there are some issues with the standard distributed plugin: first, a .octaverc file is missing, so several variables are not initialized, in addition the Windows version calls a not existent file. Moreover the plotting functions are quite old and are not compatibile with Octave newer than version 2 (or maybe 3, anyway a quite old version).
You could try to run the command in
%TEXMACS_PATH%/plugins/octave/bin/tm_octave.bat
from the terminal to see what happens. There is a problem with this plugin and it does not work also on Mac but I do not know enough Octave to fix it. Somehow it does not manage to find the files which are in
%TEXMACS_PATH%/plugins/octave/octave
Please try to modify tm-start.m to look like
d=getenv("TEXMACS_PATH");
if (length(d) > 0)
addpath("tm:polynomial:plot")
tmrepl
endif
In windows, octave should be run using the scripts octave.bat (in the mingw64\bin directory of the octave install) or octave.vbs (in the install directory) for the GUI
You should not run octave.exe directly.
I am currently having an issue with Octave install in Archlinux. I am not able to load the current version of Octave 4.2.1 in Arch. It shows the following message -
/usr/lib/octave/4.2.1/exec/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/octave-gui: error while loading shared libraries: libgfortran.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
This problem with libgfortran.so.3 is not rare. Here are two similar problems happening in R 1 and 2. If somebody using Octave on Archlinux came across this issue, can you share how to resolve it. Thanks.
From the comments it became apparent that the solution from the referenced question R v3.4.0-2 unable to find libgfortran.so.3 on Arch needs to be appended, because the way the older GCC versions will be typically installed in Arch Linux is in a different path.
So, one must find, where the older version is installed, like
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/5.4.0/libgfortran.so.3
(depending on the exact GCC version)
and then add the version to LD_LIBRARY_PATH or make a symlik of the library from the above path to /usr/lib64/.
I got this issue because I installed earlier additionally openblas-lapack from AUR for better octave matrix multiplication performance. Updating openblas-lapack to newest version in AUR did the trick for me.
I'm a brand new coder trying to wean myself off of the Codecademy web environment. I'm using Sublime Text 3 in tandem with Sublime Linter 3 in order to approximate the real-time error-checking to which I've become accustomed from Codecademy's site.
I know that each linter needs to be installed separately in ST3 and I've successfully integrated "csslint" and "jshint". Both work properly.
Now, I'm trying to get an html linter to error-check my html code and I can only seem to find "HTML Tidy", which I have installed via package control. Unlike the aforementioned linters, which simply require a pre-defined command line string for input at terminal, online tutorials have me installing "HTML tidy" via a winrar executable.
Now I am regrouping and would greatly appreciate any feedback you can provide that might move me incrementally closer to having a working HTML linter. I am using a windows xp computer. Many kind thanks for your help.
According to the Installation Instructions for the plugin, there is a Windows binary for Tidy available here.
For some background, Tidy is a command line tool that comes pre-installed with Mac and Linux but not Windows. Downloading the binary mentioned here and placing it in your path will allow it to be run. To check where it should be placed, run echo %path% from the command line.
Once that is there it will work. To see the available arguments to be run with Tidy, run tidy -help from the command line. These arguments can be added to "args" linter settings.
Just copy tiny.exe to folder C:\Windows\System32\, and restart ST3.
I really need someone's help here.
Early, I was playing around with homebrew, macport and active state TCL/TK after I got the new mac pro. But somehow I accidentally deleted the tcl/tclsh folder when I was trying to delete the active state version of tcl.
Now the problem is when I'm trying to install MongoDB with Macport using:
sudo port install mongodb
It give me an error says:
so I guess I delete the wrong file..is there any way I can get it back? I tried install tcl/tk using active state package but didn't work.
Help really needed...!
Thanks
The problem seems to be that you've deleted (at least part of) the system Tcl/Tk pre-installed by Apple.* MacPorts explicitly uses Apple's Tcl (or its own, if you ask it, but not ActiveState's or Homebrew's or any other). That's why it's looking for /usr/bin/tclsh rather than just whatever tclsh is on the PATH.
If you dig inside the Mountain Lion installer package, you may be able to find and run the Tcl/Tk installer manually, but Apple makes that different (and harder) with each release. The easier thing to do is just run the installer and let it repair things for you.
* It's also possible that you first replaced parts of Apple's Tcl with another version, which you shouldn't have done, and then broke that other version. But the solution is the same.