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To install GNU Octave on a Mac is not as easy as on Microsoft Windows® or GNU/Linux.
Ready-to-use App bundles are outdated and/or do not run reliably. The installation with a package manager as MacPorts or Home Brew does not work out-of-the-box.
This How-To describes how to install Octave 4.0.3 with MacPorts (Version 2.3.4) on Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan). It shows how to avoid pitfalls and workaround bugs.
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To keep MacPorts and its ports up to date a frequently performed sudo port selfupgrade and sudo port upgrade outdated do the job. Unfortunately the […]
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To install GNU Octave on a Mac is not as easy as on Microsoft Windows® or GNU/Linux. Ready-to-use App bundles are outdated and/or do not […]
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For security reasons a lot of professional users work with standard user privileges. Nevertheless installations, updates, etc can be done by the administrator entering the […]
Continue reading »To add another language in the spell checker of the markdown editor MdCharm in Windows or GNU/Linux, download the desired dictionary (*.oxt) of OpenOffice. Unzip […]
Continue reading »Now the DNS-Hoster NO-IP follows the example of “DynDNS” who did this a couple years before. You have to confirm your account monthly – motivating […]
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In Ubuntu Java apps which use Swing’s GTK Look and Feel (LaF) do not appear as native applications. The menus does not have borders and […]
Continue reading »In wxMaxima 13 (Linux Mint 17, Ubuntu 14.04) it is not possible to type brackets as “[” or “]”. The ppa from István Blahota provides […]
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After the last MacPorts update (v2.3.4), Octave’s GUI did not run anymore. The reason was the wrong gcc variant.
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Since GTK 3 has been introduced Java Swing applications have a bug in displaying their menus when using the GTK Look and Feel (LaF). At […]
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