additional packages

[Thomas Treichl]

jennifer jentzsch schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> a few days ago i just started using octave in addition to gnuplot in  
> order to solve some integrals to calculate a shielding for a new  
> physical experiment at our chair. i am working on an ibook g4 with  
> Mac Os 10.4. Via fink i installed octave 2.1.71, the only available  
> version. after many hours of trying to adjust the errors:
> 
> error: 'print' undefined
> error: 'quadl' undefined
> 
> i found out that these functions are not part of octave-2.1.71. Can i  
> install some additional packages subsequently? i know that there is  
> also a version 3.0.0 but this one is not available via fink and i do  
> not want to download the binary via sourceforge....
> 
> i hope you can help me!
> greetings
> jennifer jentzsch
> experimental physics 4
> universtity of technology dortmund

There is a newer Octave package (Octave 3.0.0-2) available with Fink for Mac, 
cf. http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/octave Other choices are to 
install Octave binaries either from from HMUG, MacPorts or Octave-Forge.

   Thomas