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Enviroment: With SageMath 9-6-1.4.2 (arm64 architecture) under macOS 12.5.1 on an M1 Mac, I cannot directly access either octave or Macaulay2.

I have octave in /opt/local/bin and the Macaulay2 executable M2 in /Applications/Macaulay2-1.20/bin. I already had dded both those paths to /etc/paths and restarted macOS. Both paths were already in the path exported from my .profile (this is relevant to possible workarounds #1, below).

I can run both M2 and octave successfully from a Terminal command-line. However...

Problem: Octave: In the jupyter notebook (with the SageMath 9.6 kernel running, I evaluated:

octave.eval('2+2')

The long error that ensued included:

RuntimeError: unable to start octave because the command "octave-cli --no-line-editing --silent --eval 'PS2(PS1());more off' --persist" failed: The command was not found or was not executable: octave-cli.

Similarly, when I evaluated

macaulay2('3/5 + 7/11')

I get a long error message that includes:

TypeError: unable to start macaulay2 because the command 'M2 --no-debug --no-readline --silent -e \'sageLoadMode = false;ZZ#{Standard,Core#"private dictionary"#"InputPrompt"} = ZZ#{Standard,Core#"private dictionary"#"InputContinuationPrompt"} = lineno -> if(sageLoadMode) then "_EGAS_LOAD_ : " else "_EGAS_ : ";printWidth = 0;lineNumber = 10^9;sageAssign = (k, v) -> (if not instance(v, Sequence) then use v; k <- v);\'' failed: The command was not found or was not executable: M2.

Possible workarounds:

1. The method described in https://ask.sagemath.org/question/7949/running-octave-from-the-sage-notebook/?answer=28684#post-id-28684: This does not work for me, as it now causes SageMath-9-6.app not to open at all. (Since the current executable inside the SageMath-9-6.app package is named SageMath rather than Sage,I did changeSagetoSageMathfor the name of the added shell script, in the last line of that shell script, and as the value ofCFBundleExecutableininfo.plist`).
2. The method described in the first comment at https://ask.sagemath.org/question/57112/cant-run-macaulay2-via-sagemath-in-jupyter-notebook/:

For Macaulay2, this sort of thing does work:

m2=Macaulay2(command='/Applications/Macaulay2-1.20/bin/M2')
m2('3/5+7/11')

For Octave:

oc=octave(command='/opt/local/bin/octave')

This does not work! Error:

TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
/var/folders/r2/v_ly_rjj6_v1qpzx4kqy_mqr0000gn/T/ipykernel_4852/1477866728.py in <module>
----> 1 oc=octave(command='/opt/local/bin/octave')

TypeError: Interface.__call__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'command'

QUESTIONS:

(a) the workaround 2 for the call to Macaulay2 seems awkward. How can one take care of the path issue transparently?

(b) how make the call to octave work, too?

Enviroment: With SageMath 9-6-1.4.2 (arm64 architecture) under macOS 12.5.1 on an M1 Mac, I cannot directly access either octave or Macaulay2.