You may find instructions about how to do this on this page in the section labeled "How to open an app from a unidentified developer and exempt it from Gatekeeper". You may need to override Gatekeeper to allow installation. Notice that you will need to authenticate with an administrator password to be allowed to do so. If you wish to uninstall GNU Octave 3.8.0 and all other software installed by this installer you can simply move the three folders listed above to the Trash. Which will start Octave in CLI and GUI mode respectively, these are just small wrappers containing a startup script and an icon to allow launching Octave from the Finder.
This installer will install all binaries for GNU Octave 3.8.0 itself and its dependencies underĪnd will create two entries in the Applications folder Any edited files then persist in the Mac's shared folder.īinary installer for OS X 10.9.1 Ī binary installer for Mavericks can be found on Octave Forge. The recommended configuration ensures that by default user files written by the GUI are in a folder shared with the Mac's filesystem, and the VM suspends automatically when the user quits the GUI. The Octave GUI and graphics will display seamlessly on the Mac via the Mac's native X-windows server, while the server runs headless. All software used in running this server VM is open source (Vagrant, VirtualBox, Octave). The install process pulls down Octave 4.2.2 from the repository. Point and click configuration files that cause Vagrant to automatically download and configure an Octave 4.2.2 server VM under OS X including 10.10 Yosemite, 10.11 El Capitan, 10.12 Sierra and 10.13 High Sierra.
Octave 4.2.2 VM installer for Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite, 10.11 El Capitan, 10.12 Sierra, 10.13 High Sierra
Note: On Snow Leopard or earlier, Octave requires an X server. The entire installation process can take a few hours if you are compiling from source. Octave has many dependencies which will be downloaded and installed prior to Octave. The command below upgrades Octave and its dependencies to the latest Homebrew-supported versions: brew update & brew upgrade Note: If brew complains about not having a formula for Octave, the following command should fix it: brew tap -repair Install octave from core Homebrew (which is available by default): brew install octave You can also install Octave from the official Homebrew source using the method below. To install using homebrew-cask run: brew tap octave-app/octave-app Note this is not an official GNU or GNU Octave project.Īs this distributes a compiled version of Octave, installation will be much faster. Octave.app is a project to distribute GNU Octave as a native Mac GUI application, to make it easier to install and use Octave on macOS. You might need homebrew-cask if you don't have it, refer to this section.
Octave is a programming language for scientific computing.