Re: octave & octave-forge install instructions for Mac OS X 10.4.x

[Henry F. Mollet]

Thanks. Now it works in X11/xterm.
Henry
henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ cat .bash_profile
PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
export PATH
export GNUTERM=aqua
export DISPLAY=:0.0

henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ pico .bashrc
# copy/paste above and save with help of pico editior
henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ cat .bashrc
PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
export PATH
export GNUTERM=aqua
export DISPLAY=:0.0



on 7/4/05 8:23 PM, Joe Koski at address@hidden wrote:

> Henry, Marius,
> 
> By accident I discovered that Apple's X11 seems to use .bashrc, not
> .bash_profile, so I just duplicate any necessary path changes, etc., there.
> It works the same for me for both xterm and rxvt.
> 
> I haven't tried emacs yet. Real UNIX people seem to prefer emacs to xterm to
> rxvt. I guess I'm not a true UNIX geek yet.
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> on 7/4/05 8:59 PM, Henry F. Mollet at address@hidden wrote:
> 
>> henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ gnuplot
>> bash: gnuplot: command not found
>> henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ bash --login
>> henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ gnuplot
>> 
>>         G N U P L O T
>>         Version 4.0 patchlevel 0
>> 
>> henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ export
>> declare -x DISPLAY=":0.0"
>> declare -x HOME="/Users/hfm"
>> declare -x LOGNAME="hfm"
>> declare -x MANPATH="/usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man"
>> declare -x OLDPWD
>> declare -x PATH="/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin"
>> declare -x PWD="/Users/hfm"
>> declare -x SECURITYSESSIONID="b86380"
>> declare -x SHELL="/bin/bash"
>> declare -x SHLVL="2"
>> declare -x TERM="xterm"
>> declare -x USER="hfm"
>> declare -x WINDOWID="6291470"
>> declare -x __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING="0x1F5:0:0"
>> henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$
>> 
>> Joe Koski is using the rxvt X11 terminal which probably does not have this
>> odd behavior of having to force things to be read in. He also said that it
>> has the scroll bar on the right and that the terminal behaves more like
>> expected and he built it from source.
>> 
>> For setting scroll bar etc. on Apple's xterm see
>> http://www.abbeyworkshop.com/howto/macosx/x11Term/
>> 
>> Thanks, Henry
>> 
>> 
>> on 7/3/05 12:15 PM, Marius Schamschula at address@hidden wrote:
>>> Henry,
>>> This is a known issue with Apple's xterm. By default it seems not to
>>> read your .bash_proflie. I usually do a
>>> 
>>> bash --login
>>> 
>>> to force things to be read in.
>>> 
>>> Marius
>>> --
>>> Marius Schamschula                               Webmaster
>>> 
>>>          The Huntsville Macintosh Users Group
>>>                      www.hmug.org
>>> 
>>> webmaster at hmug dot org    marius at schamschula dot com
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jul 2, 2005, at 1:00 PM, Henry F. Mollet wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I used X11 and tried to run octave and gnuplot in the X11/xterm
>>>> terminal.
>>>> Octave worked but would not plot because it now could not find
>>>> gnuplot. Then
>>>> I opened gnuplot and I could do a plot.
>>>> 
>>>> I must also have to set the path someplace for both octave and gnuplot
>>>> because I had to use /urs/local/bin/octave or gnuplot to open these
>>>> applications in the xterm terminal.
>>>> Henry
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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