installing octave 3.0.0 on a Mac Intel machine

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 4, 2008, at 4:43 AM, Francis Poulin wrote:
>
> Ben Abbott wrote:
>
>>
>> I use Fink, and have modified their octave.info file to build 3.0.0
>> (the official Fink release is still 2.9.15).
>>
>
> Thanks for the advice.
>
> I'm not attached to Macports and I have installed fink.   
> Unfortunately,
> there is not a stable version of octave for the 10.4-intel  
> processor.  This
> means that I can't even install and old version of octave using  
> fink.  When
> I check out the fink packages I see that 3.0.0-1 is an unstable  
> version of
> octave but it doesn't tell you how to install it. Since you've done it
> yourself could you explain how I might do this myself?
>
> Francis

Regarding Fink's qualification of stable/unstable, you can safely  
(imo) ignore its implied meaning. This qualification doesn't carry the  
same weight at it does with Debian.

To install unstable apps, you'll need to edit /sw/etc/fink.conf and  
add the unstable tree. The line in question is below

Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto unstable/main unstable/ 
crypto local/injected

If you don't already have the "local" part there, and don't have a  
desire to create your own package descriptions for Fink to build and  
install, you can leave those items out.

Ben