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 or, How to Minimalistically GNUify Mac OS X For Building Octave From Scratch
-=Binary-Releases=
+=Using package manager=
-If you are looking for an already build version of Octave for Mac OS X then visit one of the following web pages that do provide a binary-release of octave and follow the instructions for installing Octave from these web pages:
+If you are looking for an already built version of Octave for Mac OS X, at the present there doesn't exist a reliable one. Instead, [[Octave for MacOS X|use a package manager]].
-    http://octave.sourceforge.net/
-    http://fink.sourceforge.net/ (specifically http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/octave)
-    http://www.macports.org/ (specifically https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/math/octave/Portfile)
-    http://hpc.sourceforge.net/#octave
-At the SourceForge link, you can obtain Octave as a .dmg file, as well as a .dmg of the most recent build of Gnuplot. This should be good enough for most users. Also consider [[AquaTerm]] for displaying graphs instead of X11. (Aquaterm is included in gnuplot in the extras folder of the Octave install image, and if you install it separately there might be issues.)
 =Source-Compilation=