Octave Fontconfig error - homebrew

I installed Octave via Homebrew using the instructions given here.
When I try to generate a plot, I get the following message:
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
warning: could not match any font: *-normal-normal-10
warning: called from
axes at line 66 column 10
gca at line 58 column 9
newplot at line 148 column 8
surf at line 70 column 9
sombrero at line 65 column 5
I then get a long series of the following messages:
warning: ft_render: unable to load appropriate font
warning: could not match any font: *-normal-normal-10
Usually the plot appears once, but if I call it again then Octave quits with the following message.
panic: Segmentation fault: 11 -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to 'octave-workspace'...
warning: unable to open 'octave-workspace' for writing...
warning: called from
__gnuplot_drawnow__>gnuplot_trim_term at line 368 column 10
__gnuplot_drawnow__>gnuplot_set_term at line 119 column 20
__gnuplot_drawnow__ at line 84 column 16
Segmentation fault: 11
In discussions of similar errors I have often seen references to /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. My /etc directory does not contain a fonts subdirectory. This may be the source of the problem, but I do not know how to fix it. When I run, brew install fontconfig, I get Warning: fontconfig-2.11.1_1 already installed. When I run sudo find / -name fonts.conf, I get /opt/X11/lib/X11/fontconfig/fonts.conf.
brew doctor produces the following warnings, which may be relevant and which I do not know how to fix (short of uninstalling Anaconda):
Warning: Anaconda is known to frequently break Homebrew builds, including Vim
and MacVim, due to bundling many duplicates of system and Homebrew-available
tools.
If you encounter a build failure please temporarily remove Anaconda
from your $PATH and attempt the build again prior to reporting the
failure to us. Thanks!
Warning: "config" scripts exist outside your system or Homebrew directories.
`./configure` scripts often look for *-config scripts to determine if
software packages are installed, and what additional flags to use when
compiling and linking.
Having additional scripts in your path can confuse software installed via
Homebrew if the config script overrides a system or Homebrew provided
script of the same name. We found the following "config" scripts:
/Users/greg/anaconda/bin/curl-config
/Users/greg/anaconda/bin/freetype-config
/Users/greg/anaconda/bin/libdynd-config
/Users/greg/anaconda/bin/libpng-config
/Users/greg/anaconda/bin/libpng16-config
/Users/greg/anaconda/bin/python-config
/Users/greg/anaconda/bin/python2-config
/Users/greg/anaconda/bin/python2.7-config
/Users/greg/anaconda/bin/xml2-config
/Users/greg/anaconda/bin/xslt-config
I am running OS X 10.11.3 (El Capitan).

try
brew uninstall fontconfig
brew install fontconfig --universal
if you don't have or don't want to use xquartz, you can use qt
brew uninstall gnuplot
brew install gnuplot --with-qt

Actually, it's not an issue of Octave, but of its complicated setup and misconfiguration of other utilities (especially fontconfig).
For proper work you need to set manually path for fontconfig, so it wouldn't look for fonts in inappropriate directory (/etc/fonts works for Linux installations, but OS X XQuartz goes to different place).
You should run command export FONTCONFIG_PATH=/opt/X11/lib/X11/fontconfig to setup fontconfig proper way. Also you can add line export FONTCONFIG_PATH=/opt/X11/lib/X11/fontconfig to your ~/.bash_profile and restart your terminal, so you don't need to run this command anymore.

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Installing Wine on Mac OS Catalina. Error: No available formula with the name "wine"

I'm trying to install Wine on my Mac via Brew. I'm using Catalina and just updated brew, installed XQuartz and have Xcode installed. When I type the command "Brew install wine" it returns the following:
Error: No available formula with the name "wine"
==> Searching for a previously deleted formula (in the last month)...
Warning: homebrew/core is shallow clone. To get complete history run:
git -C "$(brew --repo homebrew/core)" fetch --unshallow
wine was deleted from homebrew/core in commit 82bd38bc:
wine: delete
To show the formula before removal run:
git -C "$(brew --repo homebrew/core)" show 82bd38bc^:Formula/wine.rb
If you still use this formula consider creating your own tap:
https://docs.brew.sh/How-to-Create-and-Maintain-a-Tap
I'm following this tutorial: https://www.davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac/
When I run Brew doctor I get the following:
Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers
with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is
working fine: please don't worry or file an issue; just ignore this. Thanks!
Warning: "config" scripts exist outside your system or Homebrew directories.
`./configure` scripts often look for *-config scripts to determine if
software packages are installed, and which additional flags to use when
compiling and linking.
Having additional scripts in your path can confuse software installed via
Homebrew if the config script overrides a system or Homebrew-provided
script of the same name. We found the following "config" scripts:
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin/python3.7-config
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin/python3.7m-config
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin/python3-config
Warning: Unbrewed dylibs were found in /usr/local/lib.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.
Unexpected dylibs:
/usr/local/lib/libtcl8.6.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libtk8.6.dylib
Warning: Unbrewed header files were found in /usr/local/include.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.
Unexpected header files:
/usr/local/include/fakemysql.h
/usr/local/include/fakepq.h
/usr/local/include/fakesql.h
/usr/local/include/itcl.h
/usr/local/include/itcl2TclOO.h
/usr/local/include/itclDecls.h
/usr/local/include/itclInt.h
/usr/local/include/itclIntDecls.h
/usr/local/include/itclMigrate2TclCore.h
/usr/local/include/itclTclIntStubsFcn.h
/usr/local/include/mysqlStubs.h
/usr/local/include/odbcStubs.h
/usr/local/include/pqStubs.h
/usr/local/include/tcl.h
/usr/local/include/tclDecls.h
/usr/local/include/tclOO.h
/usr/local/include/tclOODecls.h
/usr/local/include/tclPlatDecls.h
/usr/local/include/tclThread.h
/usr/local/include/tclTomMath.h
/usr/local/include/tclTomMathDecls.h
/usr/local/include/tdbc.h
/usr/local/include/tdbcDecls.h
/usr/local/include/tdbcInt.h
/usr/local/include/tk.h
/usr/local/include/tkDecls.h
/usr/local/include/tkPlatDecls.h
Warning: Unbrewed .pc files were found in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.
Unexpected .pc files:
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/tcl.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/tk.pc
Warning: Unbrewed static libraries were found in /usr/local/lib.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.
Unexpected static libraries:
/usr/local/lib/libtclstub8.6.a
/usr/local/lib/libtkstub8.6.a
I'm not sure these warnings has something to do with it.
Thanks in advance!
I was able to build Wine 64 bit from source on macOS Catalina and successfully run Notepad++ 64 bit on it.
My steps were more or less something like that:
Download Wine 4.20 from https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/4.x/wine-4.20.tar.xz
Extract it
In terminal go to extracted directory
Run: ./configure --enable-win64
It showed that it cannot find some library (I do not remember what exactly) so I installed it with macports (sudo port install name_of_missing_package reported by ./configure)
After I was able to run ./configure --enable-win64 succesfully without errors in terminal run: make
It compiled after more than 30 minutes.
I run it with: ./wine start
It opened windows console and here I was able to cd to Notepad++ 64 bit directory (downloaded from https://notepad-plus-plus.org/repository/7.x/7.0/npp.7.bin.x64.zip note that newest version did not work and throwed some errors about some dll's)
I typed notepad++ to run exe file
It showed some errors about freetype fonts so I installed them with macports and I had to copy them from /opt/X11/lib to /usr/local/lib before wine detected them
After fixing freetype fonts problem I was able to run notepad++
Also you might want to run: sudo spctl --master-disable to disable gatekeeper if you will see some system alerts about loading app from unknown developer.
Also note that instead of ./wine start you can run ./wine explorer for graphical file manager instead of console
Those steps might not be exactly precise, as I'm not sure if I did not miss something but hope it will help someone.
Also note that obviously wine on macOS Catalina will be able to run only some 64 bit windows apps and all 32 bit windows app will not work. I also tested it with IrfanView 64 bit (https://www.fosshub.com/IrfanView.html?dwl=iview453_x64_setup.exe) and it also works fine.
In case you wanted to get wine working for purpose of running 32 bit games then unfortunately it will not work with wine but you can try with virtualbox. You can check https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AO8dF0vviQ for some performance improvements tips.
Wine hast been removed from homebrew due to the incompatibility to Macos Catalina
https://discourse.brew.sh/t/issue-with-wine/6188/3
Try using wine64 to run your .exe files after installing wine. The manuals and references don't seem to mention this explicitly.
More Info
I followed the guidance in the wine manual to install using home-brew. After install, I got an error when trying to test the installation like it says in the quickstart.
Install wine-stable using homebrew
brew tap homebrew/cask-versions
brew install --cask --no-quarantine wine-stable
After install, test by opening notepad
wine notepad
zsh: bad CPU type in executable: wine
While uninstalling wine, I noticed one of the linked libraries was called wine64. I immediately reinstalled and tried again using wine64 as the call, as I am using wine on an M1 Mac. This was successful!
You can also use winehelp to get access to more commands that will work with 64bit processor.
Based on https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/46556#issuecomment-559938873 you can do brew cask install wine-stable on newer version of OS X. And works with recent versions of homebrew since the source version was moved :(
How to install wine on Mac OS Catalina with brew
install homebrew with
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
install xquartz to install wine using brew
brew cask install xquartz
install wine using brew
brew install homebrew/cask-versions/wine-devel
run wine and check the version
wine64 --version
As of Wine 5.0 there is no 32bit support on mac in the official version, but you are able to achieve it via the
Unofficial Wineskin Winery
You can download it from github releases here. And then create a Wineskin with WS11WineCX[64/32]bit19.0.[0/1]. All WS11 versions support Catalina. To use it you also need to turn off the no32exec boot argument. You theoretically can do it by typing:
sudo nvram boot-args="no32exec=0"
into the Terminal while you're logged in but it didn't work out for me, so if you'll have the same problem, reboot into the Recovery mode, in the menubar pick Utilities -> Terminal and type just:
nvram boot-args="no32exec=0"
(without sudo).
Example
To be more exact, to install eg. Steam 32bit, you would:
Install the Unofficiall Wineskin Winery from the provided link
Turn on the 32bit execution boot argument by going into Recovery Mode and entering nvram boot-args="no32exec=0" into the terminal
Open Wineskin, click the '+' sign and scroll down to find the WS11WineCX64bit19.0.1 (the newest version with 64 and 32 bit support, at the time of writing)
Click update/install under the Wrapper Version.
Click Create New Blank Wrapper, name it and click through installation of mono and gecko.
Launch the Wrapper App from Finder. Click Install Software, choose setup executable, and proceed through installation. Then pick the executable from a menu. (In case of steam, Steam.exe)
Note: If you get the "No windows app to open the file"(Like I did) error, click advanced -> configuration and set the Windows EXE to the path to the installer. Then find the place that it has installed in and set that as Windows EXE. Then you can run by clicking Test Run.
Enjoy your windows app, as an .app file!
Hope I helped!

ghostview no longer works after homebrew upgrade of ghostscript

I recently did an update/upgrade with homebrew, and now gv no longer opens any of my .ps files. The Ghostscript error window that comes up says "Unknown device: x11 Error: PostScript interpreter failed in main window".
If I try gs --help, it doesn't list x11 under available devices, and the Default output device is "bbox". I tried uninstalling and reinstalling through homebrew. I tried to reinstall adding "--with-x11" but that throws the error "invalid option: --with-x11" - apparently that's no longer allowed. I've upgraded my command line code through the app store, and tried all of this again - nothing changed. I'm on High Sierra 10.13.3, using Homebrew 2.0.6, ghostscript 9.26_1, and gv 3.7.4.
I'm not a Mac developer so I'm not completely familiar with Homebrew, but it does sound like the package has been built wiithout X11 support. The fact that --help doesn't list the device is pretty clear.
I do notice from the website that in the last 30 days there have been 2 downloads of --with-x11. So possibly they've removed X11 support recently.
The only other thing I can suggest (assuming you are comfortable with compiling yourself) is to get the sources from www.ghostscript.com, untar the source tarball, then in a terminal window, from the 'ghostpdl' directory, execute ./autogen.sh, then when that is complete, execute 'make'.
Assuming you have autotools, gcc and the X11 development package, that should build a version of Ghostscript which includes X support. Looking at the Homebrew forumla, and assuming this has worked for you in the past, I think you should be able to build Ghostscript that way.
You might want to add --disable-cups --disable-compile-inits --disable-gtk --disablefontconfig --without-libidn to the ./autogen.sh command line to mimic the Homebrew formula. I'm not sure why they disable CUPS, but whatever.
Other than that, this isn't really a Ghostscript question as such, you would need to contact whoever handles the Homebrew Ghostscript distribution, which isn't any of the Ghostscript development team.
For those searching for a solution, I've put together a custom Homebrew tap that allows you to easily install GV (commonly called Ghostview, but really a derivative of it):
brew install johnhcc/gs-x11/gv
This will automatically install a version of Ghostscript with X11 enabled in the process (it is a dependency). You can optionally install the dependency by itself, it you want:
brew install johnhcc/gs-x11/ghostscript-x11
The main page is here:
https://github.com/johnhcc/homebrew-gs-x11

Brew doctor gives out warnings

when I ran brew doctor I go loads of warnings. So I went ahead, cleaned out the existing installation and did it from scratch.
Now I still get some warnings:
Warning: "config" scripts exist outside your system or Homebrew directories.
`./configure` scripts often look for *-config scripts to determine if
software packages are installed, and what additional flags to use when
compiling and linking.
Having additional scripts in your path can confuse software installed via
Homebrew if the config script overrides a system or Homebrew provided
script of the same name. We found the following "config" scripts:
/opt/sm/pkg/active/bin/curl-config
/opt/sm/pkg/active/bin/ncurses5-config
/opt/sm/pkg/active/bin/ncursesw5-config
/opt/sm/pkg/active/bin/pkg-config
/opt/sm/pkg/active/bin/xml2-config
/opt/sm/pkg/active/bin/xslt-config
Warning: You have a non-Homebrew 'pkg-config' in your PATH:
/opt/sm/pkg/active/bin/pkg-config
`./configure` may have problems finding brew-installed packages using
this other pkg-config.
But since I only started using OS X a few days ago, I am not sure if the mentioned config files are relevant or if I can just delete them? Have already been looking through forums for hours, but still none the wiser at the moment... Any advice is very much appreciated!
Try taking /opt/sm/pkg/active/bin/ out of your PATH.
That will prevent the scripts installed in that directory from accidentally taking precedence over the ones installed by homebrew.
If you're a newbie like me and want a more clear answer on exactly how to do this, I found this answer here How to change path for homebrew: "config" scripts exist outside your system or Homebrew directories and it worked for me:
The /opt/sm is in the /etc/profile.d directory. Open it by entering
cd /etc/profile.d
in terminal and then
open .
Open sm.sh file in text editor and then comment out the path by putting a hash sign # in front of
PATH="${PATH}:/opt/sm/bin:/opt/sm/pkg/active/bin:/opt/sm/pkg/active/sbin"
Save the change in your text editor and then quit and relaunch Terminal. Run brew doctor 'Warning' should be gone.

Prevent warning about Macports/Fink installation

How can I prevent the following warning from Homebrew appearing whenever I install something?
Warning: It appears you have MacPorts or Fink installed.
Software installed with other package managers causes known problems for
Homebrew. If a formula fails to build, uninstall MacPorts/Fink and try again.
Note that I've never (that I recall) installed Fink on this machine and I just uninstalled Macports. I've tried removing /opt/local/bin from my PATH to no avail.
Did you follow the official guide? (specially the "rm" part)
Looking at the source (in def macports_or_fink_installed?), it seems to check something like this:
$ which port
$ which fink
$ ls /sw/bin/fink /opt/local/bin/port # if they exist
$ ls -ld /sw /opt/local # if either directory exists it must be readable
It's a dirty hack but if you just want to silence the warning you can comment out the relevant parts of check_macports in $(brew --prefix)/Library/Homebrew/cmd/install.rb.

pip installing ipython with readline on OSX Lion

What is required to get ipython fully functional on OSX Lion? I'm trying to get ipython with readline working and having no success.
My approach:
(inside a virtual environment)
pip install ipython # runs, but only slightly useful because can't indent blocks
pip install readline
The second completes with warnings and eventually says "Successfully installed readline"
But I'm still left without the ability to indent blocks and going back in the command history leads to garbled terminal output.
I suspect these warnings are critical, but I'm at a loss about what to do about them.
ld: warning: ignoring file readline/libreadline.a, file was built for archive which is not the architecture being linked (i386)
ld: warning: ignoring file readline/libhistory.a, file was built for archive which is not the architecture being linked (i386)
(I've spent the morning googling the errors, to no avail)
tia,
I've had the same issue and for some reason only the version of readline installed via easy_install readline works fine.
1) Upgraded to latest Mac OS X dev tools
2) Installed Distribute
3) pip install ipython
4) pip install readline
Thanks to this article.

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