octave - error when computing dependencies

[johan.liakka@…]

When I try to install octave, I get the following error message:

sh-3.2# port install octave
--->  Computing dependencies for octave
Error: Dependency 'atlas' not found.
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

Clearly, the atlas package cannot be found. Any solutions to this??

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

"sudo port -v selfupdate" and try again? The atlas port definitely exists in the repository.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

There is nothing to fix here. Please move any tech support issues to the ​Macports Users Mailing List.

[garrett@…]

Problem exists for me also ===

elvis:garrett:1:~ % sudo port -v selfupdate ---> Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync receiving file list ... done base.tar

sent 10864 bytes received 111 bytes 4390.00 bytes/sec total size is 3226624 speedup is 294.00 receiving file list ... done base.tar.rmd160

sent 64 bytes received 116 bytes 120.00 bytes/sec total size is 512 speedup is 2.84 MacPorts base version 2.0.3 installed, MacPorts base version 2.0.3 downloaded. ---> Updating the ports tree Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports.tar receiving file list ... done ports.tar

sent 47539 bytes received 1199026 bytes 146654.71 bytes/sec total size is 45909504 speedup is 36.83 receiving file list ... done ports.tar.rmd160

sent 64 bytes received 636 bytes 466.67 bytes/sec total size is 512 speedup is 0.73 receiving file list ... done PortIndex

sent 15826 bytes received 152230 bytes 48016.00 bytes/sec total size is 6913468 speedup is 41.14 receiving file list ... done PortIndex.rmd160

sent 64 bytes received 636 bytes 280.00 bytes/sec total size is 512 speedup is 0.73 ---> MacPorts base is already the latest version

The ports tree has been updated. To upgrade your installed ports, you should run

port upgrade outdated

elvis:garrett:0:~ % sudo port install octave ---> Computing dependencies for sqlite3 ---> Fetching archive for sqlite3 ---> Attempting to fetch sqlite3-3.7.8_1.darwin_11.x86_64.tbz2 from ​http://packages.macports.org/sqlite3 ---> Fetching sqlite3 ---> Verifying checksum(s) for sqlite3 ---> Extracting sqlite3 ---> Applying patches to sqlite3 ---> Configuring sqlite3 ---> Building sqlite3 ---> Staging sqlite3 into destroot ---> Installing sqlite3 @3.7.8_1 ---> Cleaning sqlite3 ---> Computing dependencies for sqlite3 ---> Deactivating sqlite3 @3.7.8_0 ---> Cleaning sqlite3 ---> Activating sqlite3 @3.7.8_1 ---> Cleaning sqlite3 ---> Computing dependencies for octave Error: Dependency 'atlas' not found. Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. To report a bug, see <​http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets> elvis:garrett:1:~ % sudo port install atlas Error: Port atlas not found To report a bug, see <​http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets> elvis:garrett:1:~ %

[garrett@…]

Possibly a port index problem?

elvis:garrett:1:~ % cd /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/math/atlas elvis:garrett:0:atlas % sudo port install Password: ---> Computing dependencies for atlas ---> Dependencies to be installed: gzip ---> Fetching archive for gzip ---> Attempting to fetch gzip-1.4_0.darwin_11.x86_64.tbz2 from ​http://packages.macports.org/gzip ---> Fetching gzip

[johan.liakka@…]

Sorry for not replying in a while. I actually solved the problem the same day as i created the ticket here...

Apparently there are two different variants of octave: Atlas and Accelerate. I don't really know the difference between the two variants, but since Atlas didn't work i just tried to install the other one instead. So I wrote something like

port install octave +accelerate +gcc45

and it worked. I have not used octave so much since the installation, only simple contour plotting, but it works fine..

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

In any event, as mentioned above, this is a tech support issue. The atlas port exists and there is nothing to change in Macports.

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

I understand that the ticket is closed, but want to add something nevertheless. I was hit by the same problem today. I ran selfupdate, upgrade outdated, install octave in that order and it was complaining about missing atlas. I tried "port search atlas" which resulted in "No match for atlas found". After that I tried selfupdate, upgrade outdated (which errored out with "No ports matched the given expression") again and atlas was suddenly found. The first and last selfupdate were approximately an hour apart. Could it be that indexes are messed up during upgrade somehow?

[matthew.g.russell@…]

Cc Me!