#Aquaterm 2016 install#
#Aquaterm 2016 plus#

octaverc can be found in /usr/local/Cellar/octave/4.0.0_5/share/octave/site/m/startup and the line you put in there is setenv(‘GNUTERM’,’aqua’) Octave has a file, octaverc, that it checks at every start up for additional commands it should load so that’s a good place to put our instruction. Secondly, We need to tell Octave that it should output graphics with gnuplot to Aquaterm. Adding just one line: export FONTCONFIG_PATH=/opt/X11/lib/X11/fontconfig It’s a good idea to check now whether Octave plots nicely, if you happen to run into a fontconfig error like described on stackoverflow you wanna do two things:įirstly, tell the terminal each time it starts to fix the fontconfig issue by editing the ~/.bash_profile. Now we need to make sure that gnuplot outputs to Aquaterm: $ gnuplot gnuplot> set terminal aqua If Aquaterm is being difficult there’s some more help here.

#Aquaterm 2016 install#

Once Aquaterm is there, we need to uninstall and re-install gnuplot with our new best friend Homebrew: $ brew uninstall gnuplot $ brew install gnuplot -with-aquaterm Please make sure you have XQuartz installed, otherwise you can use Homebrew to do that.įirst we need to install Aquaterm which is a graphics renderer working well with gnuplot. If everything works, perfect, skip the next section.

You can now start Octave from the Terminal by just typing octave and you should do so in order to check whether your plotting infrastructure works or not. More information on the installation process is in the Octave Wiki.

#Aquaterm 2016 plus#

Now that we have Homebrew up and running plus a neat system we can easily install Octave to /usr/local/Cellar/octave: $ brew tap homebrew/science $ brew install octave Homebrew looks like a handy tool, so it’s a good idea to have it anyway. In the Terminal to find a lot of things that you have messed up in the last couple of years with your system and the diagnostics will help you fix it. After the installation is complete, run $ brew doctor Install Atom editor with syntax highlighting for Octave/MatLab and built-in Terminalįollow the instructions at to install Homebrew, a package manager for OSX.Install Aquaterm and Gnuplot for the plotting (& Troubleshooting).It took me a while to set up an environment I was happy with and arrived at something resembling RStudio for Octave.

I am currently taking Andrew Ng’s machine learning course over at Coursera which uses Octave.