Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink Commander

[Rory M. <ro...@ia...>]

Hi there
Thank you all very much for the help, simply I had done everything 
correctly but did not understand that it was a Unix program and how to 
run it. I followed your sage advice and WHoa... it all works. I kinda 
understand now how people believe in magic... I am new to apple, and 
other sophisticated stuff.
Thanks for treating a complete muppet with kid gloves ...
Regards
Rory Mackay
On Jul 30, 2004, at 3:57 PM, Brian O'Keefe wrote:

> Does octave not require an X windows environment also? Do you have X11 
> or xfree86 installed? Do you know how to start it up from the Terminal 
> (startx)? Hope this helps
> Brian
> On Friday, July 30, 2004, at 06:10 AM, Perry Smith wrote:
>
>> To add more to this:
>>
>> Open a terminal window.  Terminal is in Applications->Utilities
>>
>> You will get to a prompt that looks like a # or $ or something 
>> similar.  At that point type  "octave" and hit the return key and 
>> your application will execute.
>>
>> On Jul 29, 2004, at 7:35 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 29, 2004, at 6:59 PM, Rory Mackay wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>> I am a rank outsider here, please forgive total ignorance. I have 
>>>> bumbled through installing Fink and Fink Commander and the package 
>>>> I want to run. (Octave) How do I Install and run it?
>>>> Fink commander assures me it has been installed and current. I see 
>>>> no icon or whatever to click on to run it on my applications 
>>>> folder. My fiddling in Fink Commander has not destroyed anything, 
>>>> and produced nothing useful.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any document or procedure that I can be directed to to 
>>>> start this up?
>>>> I have g4 ibook and osX 10.3
>>>> Thanks in advance and feel free to scare your children with my 
>>>> ignorance....; -)
>>>> Rory Mackay
>>>> email ro...@ia...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> You've installed Unix applications, rather than an OSX application 
>>> bundle, so you run them from the command line, not by clicking an 
>>> icon.  You can see what was installed where by running "dpkg -L 
>>> octave".  The executables are installed in /sw/bin.
>>>
>>> In this case, if your environment is set up properly, you should run 
>>> the main executable in the command line as so:
>>>
>>> octave
>>>
>>> There's online docs at:
>>>
>>> http://www.octave.org/doc/octave_2.html#SEC6
>>>
>>> --
>>> Alexander K. Hansen
>>> Fink Documentarian
>>> Day Job:  Levitated Dipole Experiment
>>> http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
>>>
>>>
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