[Ifeffit] Demeter on Mac OS X via Macports

[George Sterbinsky]

Hi Jeff,

That fixed the problem. Thanks for your help.

Best,
George


On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Jeff Terry <terryj at iit.edu> wrote:

> Hi George,
>
> This is a GUESS as I have not installed athena from macports.
>
> I can't be sure as I don't know if that version of Athena uses X11 but I
> imagine that it does.
>
> Try typing echo $DISPLAY in a terminal window and see if you get a result.
> If you don't then you may not have X11installed.
>
> You can download X11 at http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac
>
> Jeff
>
>
> On Jan 25, 2014, at 8:07 AM, George Sterbinsky <
> GeorgeSterbinsky at u.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Frank,
>
> I installed Athena on OSX 10.8.5 using Macports. The error given below
> prints to the terminal when I run Athena, and Athena does not generate any
> plots. If there is any further information I can provide that would be
> helpful, let me know.
>
> Graphics::GnuplotIF : cannot find environment variable DISPLAY
>
> Best,
> George
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Schima, Frank <frank.schima at nist.gov>wrote:
>
>>  Hello Mac users,
>>
>>
>>  I finally have launched a Mac OS X version of Demeter 0.9.18.2 on
>> Macports. I have not tested it very much because I’m not actually a Demeter
>> user. It builds, launches and opens some example data but beyond that, it
>> is untested. If the Mac version interests you, fire up your Terminal and
>> follow these instructions:
>>
>>  1. *Carefully* follow the steps to install Macports. <
>> http://www.macports.org/install.php>
>> 2. Open a new Terminal window and type the following. It will take a
>> while depending on your computer and network speed.
>>
>>  sudo port install demeter
>>
>>  3. When it is done, launch Athena by typing the following in Terminal.
>> Note: Make sure you are in a directory you have write permission to (like
>> your home directory) because it creates hidden log files at launch time.
>>
>>  athena
>>
>>  It is a known issue that artemis and hephaestus do not launch right
>> now, but Bruce is working on a fix that will be added soon. I'm not going
>> to have time to debug people's Macports issues when installing Demeter with
>> Macports, but tech support is available on the Macports Users mailing list
>> [1]. You should not need any help installing if you correctly follow the
>> intructions. Please let Bruce and I know if it works for you or not after
>> you have it installed. I have only tested on OS X Mavericks and Mountain
>> Lion so far. Keep in mind that this is the first working release candidate
>> of Demeter on Mac OS X, so problems are going to be expected.
>>
>>
>>  Cheers!
>> Frank
>>
>>  [1] <https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users>
>>
>>
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