Re: Installing Octave via Home-brew on MacOS
Kai Torben Ohlhus <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.octave.general |
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On 11/17/20 8:42 AM, oleg efimov wrote: > Dear Octave, > > We are trying to install Octave on macOS into the usr/bin > > And this is via the home brew. > > Could you please let us know how this works with the latest homebrew > permission limits on > > The usr/bin > > We are getting this error message because homebrew fails to install > octave : > > /usr/bin/octave: bad interpreter: No such file or directory > > We have tried to run the commands we need to run via the GUI version of > OCTAVE. > > However it requires the FreeSurfer dependencies for setting up the paths. > > And this would assume that this would work within macOS usr/bin > > Default directory for Octave. > > If you could help or guide thank you! > > Cheers, Oleg Dear Oleg, The Octave project is only little involved into the Homebrew development, thus it might be superior to ask at their community for help [1] after some more web searching and to check for common issues there [2]. "brew doctor" [3] is also a useful command to track configuration errors. For your particular error message, there I can find something similar related to a configuration problem (MS Windows line endings on checkout) of git on the macOS system in combination with ruby [2]. The Octave 5.2.0 GUI of Homebrew on macOS is VERY unstable and not to recommend for any productive work. Wait in this case for Octave 6 soon or use the command-line interface CLI, once installed on your system. If Homebrew continues to be reluctant, give the Octave.app [4] installer a try. HTH, Kai [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/new/choose [2] https://docs.brew.sh/Common-Issues [3] https://docs.brew.sh/Manpage [4] https://github.com/octave-app/octave-app/releases