Re: plotting problem on Mac OSX

[Chris Daamen]

Hi everyone,

I'm using Octave version 3.4.0 running on OSX Mountain lion, and I have

installed X-Code 4.6.1, AquaTerm 1.1.0, X11 2.7.2 and Gnuplot too. But

nothing still happens when I'm trying to plot a graph. Just AquaTerm Opens

and nothing else happens.

please someone help me with this.

thanks.

I assume you installed an application bundle for Octave?  Maybe one recommended by Coursera?

There are some problems with running the application bundle on Lion and Mountain Lion.  Some people have been successful, but others have problems.  The problem may be that your copy of gnuplot was built to use a different version of Aquaterm than the one you have installed.  To fix that, just uninstall Aquaterm .. often gnuplot comes bundled with Aquaterm (buried in the gnuplot application bundle).  If that doesn't fix the problem for you, you can try using the x11 terminal.  From Octave's prompt, just try ..

setenv GNUTERM x11
plot (rand (3))

In general, we recommend you use one of the package managers available for Mac OSX (Fink, Macports, or Homebrew).

http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_MacOS_X

Please uninstall the version Aquaterm you have before trying to run Octave installed using any of these package managers.

Ben

For what its worth, I am on Lion, and used the strategy as I outlined before. I do get nice plots in both the ways I explained.