Octave not producing plots in Mac OS X Mountain Lion

Question

Octave is not producing any plots in Mountain Lion. What is the problem?

Answer 1

This has something to do with the X11 and GNUPLOT, but it can be resolved with the following code in the Terminal:

cd /Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/lib
mv libfreetype.6.dylib libfreetype.6.dylib.bak
ln -s /usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib .

It worked for me, hope it works for you as well.

Credits to Slava at http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Mac-OS-X-Mountain-Lion-Octave-can-not-execute-sombrero-td4643502.html