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LibreOffice – Search and Replace extented

Posted on 5. February 2018

To replace a simple carriage return with a paragraph end mark Microsoft Word® offers a solution out-of-the-box. LibreOffice does not provide any functionality for this […]

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MacPorts Update after macOS Upgrade

Posted on 8. July 2017

After a macOS Upgrade MacPorts does not generally work properly. A fast sudo port selfupdate does not do the work either in almost all cases.

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Solve transfig-updateproblem of MacPorts on macOS Sierra

Posted on 2. July 2017

Nach dem Upgrade auf macOS Sierra (10.12) und MacPorts 2.4.1 scheitert sudo upgrade outdated. Das Problem ist der Port transfig. transfig wurde durch fig2dev ersetzt. […]

German Posts, English Posts, How Tos, macOS, Octave

Scilab 5.5.2 running on macOS Sierra

Posted on 1. July 2017

After the upgrade to macOS Sierra (10.12) Scilab 5.5.2 did not start and displayed the following error message: This version on Scilab will probably fail […]

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Lightroom 6 – Solve Updateproblems – Manual Download

Posted on 25. June 2017

My Update of Lightroom 6 fails with the following error message: Lightroom CC (2015.10.1) / 6.10.1 Installation failed. Error Code: U44M1P7. To solve this and […]

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Install Octave 4 on Mac OS X El Capitan

Posted on 14. August 2016

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Ready-to-use App bundles are outdated and/or do not run reliably.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.

German Posts, English Posts, How Tos, macOS, Octave

Octave 4 upgrade via MacPorts fails after “port upgrade outdated”

Posted on 14. August 2016

To keep MacPorts and its ports up to date a frequently performed sudo port selfupgrade and sudo port upgrade outdated do the job.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 […]

German Posts, English Posts, macOS, Octave