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Update Homebrew instructions: suite-sparse is fixed now, so remove the workaround; add link to issue tracker

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 ====Simple Installation Instructions====
-*Install XCode: This is done via the Mac App Store.  For Mac OS X 10.8, it is necessary to run Xcode and install the command-line tools via its Xcode's Preferences.
+*Install XCode via the Mac App Store.
+** Once installed, install the Command Line Tools from XCode's Apple Menu > Preferences > Downloads.
 *Follow [http://www.finkproject.org/download/srcdist.php Fink's installation instructions]. For those who prefer it, there is a GUI available for Fink, [http://finkcommander.sourceforge.net Fink Commander].
 *Fink has excellent support for Octave and includes recent as well as dated versions. A list of what Fink has available for Octave is [http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/browse.php?summary=octave here]. To install the latest Octave, type {{Codeline|<nowiki>sudo fink install octave</nowiki>}} at the Terminal's command line.  For those running the 64 bit version of Fink, it is recommended that {{Codeline|octave-atlas}} be installed instead as there are some bugs/features with Apple's vecLib for the X86_64 architecture.  Octave has many dependencies which will be downloaded and installed prior to Octave. The entire installation process can take a few hours.
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 ====Simple Installation Instructions====
-*Install XCode: This is done via the Mac App Store.
+*Install XCode via the Mac App Store.
 *Follow [http://www.macports.org/install.php MacPorts' installation instructions].
 *MacPorts has good support for Octave. A list of what MacPorts has available for Octave is [http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=octave here]. To install the most recent version of Octave, type {{Codeline|sudo port install octave-devel +atlas+docs}} at the Terminal's command line. Octave has many dependencies which will be downloaded and installed prior to Octave. The entire installation process can take a few hours.
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 ====Simple Installation Instructions====
-*Install XCode: This is done via the Mac App Store. (technically you may only require just the xcode command line tools- this download is smaller at 113 megs rather than the full xcode suite at about 1.6 gigs-)
+First, install Homebrew:
-* download and install xquartz
+*Install XCode via the Mac App Store.
+** Once installed, install the Command Line Tools from XCode's Apple Menu > Preferences > Downloads.
 *Follow [https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/installation Homebrew's installation instructions].
-[http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ Homebrew] has good support for Octave. To install Octave, you must first enable the scientific related formulae by typing at the Terminal's command line:
+* {{Codeline|brew tap homebrew/science}} to import the scientific computing packages, including Octave.
- brew tap homebrew/science
+Then, install Octave:
+* {{Codeline|brew update && brew upgrade}} to pick up the latest package definitions.
+* {{Codeline|brew install gfortran}}
+* {{Codeline|brew install octave}}
-Then, if you do not have a fortran compiler installed, type
+Note that Octave has many dependencies which will be downloaded and installed prior to Octave. The entire installation process can take a few hours.
- brew install gfortran
- brew install octave
-**** caution -information below on using suite-sparse 3.7.0 might have been outdated by now , so try the normal build above which uses suite-sparse 4.2.0, and if that fails try the approach below *****
+If you run in to trouble, you can report bugs at [https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-science/issues?state=open Homebrew-science's issue tracker]. The [https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/troubleshooting Homebrew Troubleshooting Guide] can help you diagnose problems and craft useful bug reports.
-Currently, linking Octave fails with the newest suite-sparse (4.1.0). As a solution, an older version can be installed.
-First, versioning must be enabled and an older version has to be chosen (in this case, 3.7.0)
- brew tap homebrew/versions
- brew versions suite-sparse
-Then go to the install directory of brew ({{Codeline|<nowiki>/usr/local</nowiki>}} by default) and get the formula for the older version (the revision number, {{Codeline|<nowiki>ff53163</nowiki>}},  is shown in the fourth column by in the previous command's output)
- cd /usr/local/Library/Taps/homebrew-science/
- git checkout  ff53163 /usr/local/Library/Taps/homebrew-science/suite-sparse.rb
-Now compile and activate the selected version and install Octave
- brew unlink suite-sparse
- brew install -v ./suite-sparse.rb
- brew switch suite-sparse 3.7.0
- brew install octave
-**** caution -information above on using suite-sparse 3.7.0 might have been outdated by now , so try the normal build above which uses suite-sparse 4.2.0, and if that fails try the approach above  *****
-Note that Octave has many dependencies which will be downloaded and installed prior to Octave. The entire installation process can take a few hours.
 ==Create a launcher app with AppleScript==
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 <code>
   tell application "Terminal"
    do script "`which octave`; exit"
   end tell
 </code>
 * Select "Save as ..." from the "File" menu
 * In the menu that appears, select "Application" from the "File format" menu, then navigate to the "Applications" folder and save your script there as "Octave.app"
 To change the application icon