The following command works fine: sudo port install octave -accelerate+atlas+java Go To the Oracle Java website for Download. If you need Java support add the new Java variant (+java). In MacPorts 2.3.4 the variants accelerate, app, docs, fltk, gfortran, graphicsmagic, qt4gui and sound are installed by default (marked with '+' sign in port variants octave output).

The available variants for octave are displayed by typing port variants octave.

The variant installed may be important to the user's experience.

Note that octave-devel has been replaced by octave, see MacPorts Revision 114034.

The entire installation process can take some time. Octave has many dependencies which will be downloaded and installed prior to Octave. To install the most recent version of Octave, type sudo port install octave -accelerate+atlas at the Terminal's command line. A list of what MacPorts has available for Octave is here. For example, the control systems package may be installed by typing fink install control-atlas-oct382 at a terminals command line.

Fink should also be used to install [packages for Octave.

The entire installation process can take many hours. For those running the 64 bit version of Fink, it is recommended that octave-atlas-qtmac or octave-atlas-qtx11 be installed instead as there are some bugs/features with Apple's vecLib for the X86_64 architecture.

To install the latest Octave with GUI support, type fink install octave-qtmac or fink install octave-qtx11 at the Terminal's command line. A list of what Fink has available for Octave is here.

Fink has excellent support for Octave and includes recent as well as dated versions.

For those who prefer it, there is a GUI available for Fink, Fink Commander.

For OS X 10.8-10.10, enabling the binary distribution during the initial setup will save you a lot of build time.

Follow Fink's installation instructions.

Once installed, install the Command Line Tools from Xcode's Apple Menu > Preferences > Downloads on 10.7 or 10.8, and use sudo xcode-select -install on 10.9 or 10.10.

Fink uses dpkg and APT (Debian's package management system), as well as its own frontend program, fink (which is implemented as a set of Perl modules). The Fink project is an effort to port and package open-source Unix programs to macOS.

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