I found Octave.app when searching for resolution to problems related to the homebrew installation of octave on High Sierra. The Octave.app has at macOS based testing suite. And when needed, has even applied patches to address upstream code issues.

Octave is a programming language for scientific computing. Prerequisite You might need homebrew-cask, if you don't have it refer to.

Installation Homebrew 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. Note this is not an official GNU or GNU Octave project. As this distibutes a compiled version of Octave, installation will be much faster. To run: $ brew tap octave-app/octave-app $ brew cask install octave-app Homebrew official You can also install Octave from the offical homebrew source using the method below. Import the scientific computing packages and install necessary packages: $ brew tap homebrew/science $ brew install gcc $ brew install octave Note: If brew complains about not having a formula for Octave, the following command should fix it: $ brew tap --repair The command below upgrades Octave and its dependencies to the latest Homebrew-supported versions: $ brew update && brew upgrade Octave has many dependencies which will be downloaded and installed prior to Octave.

The entire installation process can take a few hours. Note: On Snow Leopard, Octave requires a X server. How to get microsoft word for free mac. If you install without, Homebrew will guide you to the where you can download this.

You might find that you need to add: setenv ('GNUTERM', 'X11') to your octaverc file, normally located at /usr/local/share/octave/site/m/startup.