Robert Fong-tom wrote:
On Nov 20, 2008, at 10:30 AM, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
moving this to macports-users list since this seems to be a MacPorts
issue; please remove help-octave from to/cc when responding
Robert Fong-tom wrote:
On Nov 19, 2008, at 1:29 PM, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
I tried porting the Image package using MacPorts, but was
unsuccessful. Kept getting errors that I did not
understand and the MacPorts help blog did not clear up
my confusion. I did not try Fik but after my experience
with MacPorts, I am reluctant to waste another week! Bob
I am using MacPorts on Mac OS X 10.4.11. The image package installs
and
works fine as best as I can tell, although I use only one or two of the
provided functions. In macports the package name is "octave-image" and
it is currently at version 1.0.6.
Jonathan,
I am also using OS X 10.4.11. Could it be that the environment
settings make a difference? Did you have to install ImageMagick
separately?
ImageMagick is a dependency for octave-image. It should be installed
via macports automatically when you try to install octave-image.
You are a little unclear about the steps you took to install octave
and the octave-forge image package. You should not have installed the
octave.app from the dmg file from sourceforge. Instead, you should
install everything from macports, by doing:
$ sudo port install octave
and then
$ sudo port install octave-image
What architecture do you have, Intel or PowerPC?
Jonathan
OK, this sounds like the problem. I had Octave 3.0.2 from the
sourceforge dmg file. I liked it so then I tried to download the
packages there. Actually the Image package is on the SourceForge site
(http://octave.sourceforge.net/) . I first tried to download this
package but did not have the full functionality. I could not read images
of any format.
So then I tried to download using MacPorts. After some initial problems,
I was able to install MacPorts itself, but then when I tried to install
Octave-image from MacPorts I got errors during the port (unfortunately I
did not save the error messages). I used the commands you gave above to
port Octave-Image. After searching the MacPorts archive for help and
e-mailing MacPorts help blog without success I gave-up on MacPorts and
uninstalled Octave. Then I installed Octave dmg file at ver 3.0.3 from
SourceForge and this is where I am now.
BTW ... shouldn't the Image package at SourceForge work for me?
My architecture is Intel MacBook Pro with OS X 10.4.11
It is as I expected: you are trying to do a mixed installation, octave
from the dmg package, and other things from MacPorts. This is not
advised. Technically, you should be able to install both octave (dmg
install) and the image package from octave-forge, but you would need to
resolve all other dependencies manually (such as development tools like
gcc, and other libraries/programs like ImageMagick), and make sure the
configuration and environment was correct for everything. This is
probably where you had some trouble. MacPorts can take care of this for
you, but you should only use MacPorts to install all the parts. Do not
mix and match.
I recommend that you uninstall the octave.app from the dmg download and
anything else you installed manually (ImageMagick?). Make sure your
MacPorts installation is working by installing and testing something
small, say "gv" (ghostview to view postscript files). Then install
octave and octave-image using the commands I posted previously (above).
Jonathan
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