Re: Coursera: about Octave

[Pascal Dupuis]

2012/12/13 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>:
> 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.

My Ph.D is in biomedical engineering, not computer science, so I
assure it's doable :-)

I found the PackageMaker.App, I'll try to produce a .dmg shortly.

Regards

Pascal