Error installing Octave

[aSapien]

Hi,

I'm really struggling to get Octave (with gui) working on my machine, running a 2017 MacBook Pro with High Sierra 10.13.6.

I started with the guide at octave-on-macos-with-gui
Since it produced errors related to QButton..., I found issue #68 and followed to #67 where I tried the instructions in the comment, but unfortunately to no avail.
I've also tried to execute the installs one-by-one as described in a later comment but that yields the same results for me.

At some point I also tried to modify the octave.rb file and attempt an install, as described in a an earlier issue but that didn't work either.

If it's of any help, I can say that I have version 1.16 aclocal installed because running aclocal-1.16 --version from home dir returns the version information. Running aclocal-1.15 --version produces an error.

The logs gist from brew gist-logs octave is here

Ane help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Dima

[aSapien]

I believe this issue is related to (or, a duplicate of) issue #67. Although, unlike the issue title, since running curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/schoeps/homebrew-openblas/master/octave.rb -o /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/dpo/homebrew-openblas/octave.rb The attempts should install Octave 4.4

[schoeps]

I should probably update the explanation on the website. I was recently more focussing on http://octave-app.org (where you can get a preconpiled binary if you like). However, the steps from #67 should be still correct and give you a working Octave 4.4:

# get newest formula
brew update
brew upgrade
# make sure that dependencies are compiled from dpo's repository
brew reinstall openblas
brew reinstall dpo/homebrew-openblas/arpack
brew reinstall dpo/homebrew-openblas/qrupdate
brew reinstall dpo/homebrew-openblas/suite-sparse
brew reinstall dpo/homebrew-openblas/sundials27
# install the new formula from my pull request
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/schoeps/homebrew-openblas/master/octave.rb -o /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/dpo/homebrew-openblas/octave.rb
#compile octave
brew install dpo/homebrew-openblas/octave --verbose --with-qt --with-java

[aSapien]

@schoeps Thank you for your response. As a matter of fact, during my quest for a solution, several hours ago I stumbled upon this repo on your github, which led me to octave-app.org.

I had used the instructions as follows:

brew tap octave-app/octave-app
brew cask install octave-app

It worked perfectly, and I will tell my colleagues to use the same instructions.

You can close this ticket as resolved, your help is much appreciated.

Cheers,
Dima