Installing Octave on your PC and Mac
From Ilya Nemenman
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Back to Physics 380, 2011: Information Processing in Biology.
Back to Physics 380, 2010: Information Processing in Biology.
Numerical simulations for the class should be done using Octave or Matlab. Matlab is available on university owned computers. Binary distributions of Octave for Windows and Mac OS X can be downloaded and installed from http://octave.sourceforge.net/.
To install Octave on Mac OS X, you should do the following things:
- Download the latest binary from http://octave.sourceforge.net/ (link to Octave.app for Mac OS X).
- When the downloaded disk image opens up, drag the Octave.app icon into the Applications folder next to it.
- Open the Extras folder and double click on the gnuplot-XXX.dmg.
- Drag the Gnuplot.app icon from the newly opened window into the Applications folder link next to it.
You are done. You launch octave by double-clicking it in your Applications folder.
To make your life easier, you may want to install the Aquamacs editor, in which you can edit the script files. Download the binary of Emacs from http://aquamacs.org/.
