Re: Coursera: about Octave

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 13 December 2012 10:03, Pascal Dupuis <address@hidden> wrote:
> 2012/12/13 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>:
>> On 12 December 2012 18:44,  <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> I would like to introduce myself as a Course Operations guy at
>>> Coursera. I saw your post in threads about the difficulty of
>>> installing Octave on the new Mac OSX. We would like to look into the
>>> problem and work with GNU to make some fix here. Can you give me a
>>> summary of the specific issues you've seen in installing Octave on
>>> OSX?
>>
>> We're having trouble creating a dmg for Octave. The situation is
>> basically the following:
>>
>>     http://wiki.octave.org/Create_a_MacOS_X_App_Bundle_Using_MacPorts
>>
>> Ben Abbot (cc'ed here along with the Octave maintainers' list) has
>> been doing most of this work. I'm sure he will be glad to have your
>> help.
>
> OTOH, the MacPort project as both a stable and a devel version of
> octave. Installing octave is just a matter of typing:
> sudo port -v install octave-devel

Type where? How do I do it? Please, help me. Is this Unix? I'm not a
Unix expert. I don't want to get a PhD in computer science just to
install Octave.

I'm at my wits' end here. I've been trying to install Octave for the
past day and I can't do it. I'm almost crying. All I know how to do is
click on icons and drag them to install them. You know what would be
great, if Octave developers produced a simple installer for dummies
like me. Why haven't they had this idea yet?

- Jordi G. H.