MacPorts Update after macOS Upgrade
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
Nach dem Upgrade auf macOS Sierra (10.12) und MacPorts 2.4.1 scheitert sudo upgrade outdated.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. […]
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Scilab 5.5.2 running on macOS Sierra
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
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
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Ready-to-use App bundles are outdated and/or do not run reliably.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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Octave 4 upgrade via MacPorts fails after “port upgrade outdated”
To keep MacPorts and its ports up to date a frequently performed sudo port selfupgrade and sudo port upgrade outdated do the job.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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Install DISLIN 10.6 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus
For the new Ubuntu 20.04-LTS-version Focal Fossa and Dislin 11.3 refer the new article Install DISLIN 11.3 on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa DISLIN is a […]
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Install Octave 3 on Mac OS X El Capitan
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 Ready-to-use App bundles are outdated and/or do not […]
Continue reading »Octave Function: Send vector of numbers to serial port
sendvec2serial – an Octave Function – which send number after number of an vector with delay to an serial port. Download and info at https://github.com/haniibrahim/sendvec2serial.
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Java-Update simple and automatic
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 […]
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