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October 13, 2015 · 1 min read

Engineering

How to install Octave on OSX Yosemite

How to install Octave on OSX Yosemite.

For those who have problems installing Octave on OSX Yosemite, this is a simple guide.

First of all you need HomeBrew

1. Open a terminal and install homebrew :

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

1. Update and check if homebrew is working fine.

brew update
brew doctor

1. Install XQuartz which is a X11 substitute for recent OSX distributions XQuartz

2. Install Octave with Homebrew

brew tap homebrew/science
brew update
brew install octave --with-x11

Install fltk for Gnuplot (used by Octave for graph visualization)

brew install gnuplot --with-x11

Continue exploring

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