[Gretl-users] Re: Trying out Octave for the first time in Mac, and it is not working

On Wed, 30 Sep 2020, Allin Cottrell wrote: Oh, I should have said: You have to jump through a few hoops to get octave to open on Catalina at all (and I guess you have to get it authorized to run in its own right before gretl is able to invoke it). Double-clicking on Octave-4.4.1.app will just silently fail. First open Settings/Security and Privacy so you can see messages there. Then right-click on the octave app and choose "Open". Barge your way past the discouragement you'll get and it should eventually start (provided you have admin rights). Then you can close octave, and hopefully gretl will be able to run it on demand; at least that's my experience. Allin