Comments on: Install Gnuplot 4.4.0 on Ubuntu Linux

By: Dr

Dr — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:55:26 +0000

fine=file

By: Dr

Dr — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:54:12 +0000

Hi again, I have one question. If I have an eps fine (e.g. test.eps) how can I view it outside gnuplot? One guy said just type (open test.eps) and you should be able to view it. I can’t. I think I’m missing a program that goes with (open) command. Can you kindly guide me?
Thanks a million in advance
Dr

By: Dr

Dr — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:43:41 +0000

Thanks a million. Managed to download it using my browser. All is well now after following your very clear steps. Now…the agony of learning gnuplot!!
You have been a great help.
Best regards,
Dr

By: Werner

Werner — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:45:39 +0000

hi, it seems that gnuplot wasn’t downloaded. repeat the wget command, or download gnuplot 4.4 using the http line with your browser. with

you can view, if gnuplot is in the current folder.

By: Dr

Dr — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:40:42 +0000

Hello, I am very new with ubunto and gnuplot. Was trying to follow your instructions and got stuck at the line below. Wonder if you can kindly help me? Thanks in advance. Dr

dr@dr-VirtualBox:~$ tar xzf gnuplot-4.4.0.tar.gz
tar (child): gnuplot-4.4.0.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
dr@dr-VirtualBox:~$ ^C
dr@dr-VirtualBox:~$

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:01:29 +0000

Thanks for posting this; it saved me some time fishing around for dev packages.

FWIW, these instructions work fine for gnuplot 4.4.3 backported to Ubuntu Karmic Koala. I added texlive-latex-extra to get the missing subfigure.sty file for satisfying the documentation build; this isn’t important if you just want a functional gnuplot binary though.

By: BubbaGump

BubbaGump — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:58:16 +0000

Thanks for the post. Worked very well for me. Was struggling to get gnuplot working before I saw this.
Thanks a lot.

By: marios

marios — Fri, 20 May 2011 17:01:43 +0000

Hi,
after the command ../gnuplot-4.4.3/configure –with-readline=gnu

I get the following message:

gnuplot will be compiled with the following options:

Readline library: GNU readline library with -lncurses
Command-line history file: yes
Check current directory for .gnuplot file: no (use –with-cwdrc to enable)
Sort help/subtopic tables by column: no (use –without-row-help to enable)
Use TeX kpsexpand to search for fonts: no (use –with-kpsexpand to enable)
Thin plate splines: no (use –enable-thin-spline to enable)
Hidden3d optimization: quadtree
Deprecated syntax and terminal options : no (use –enable-backwards-compatibility to enable)

gnuplot will install the following additional materials:

lasergnu printer script: no (use –with-lasergnu to enable)
gnuplot-mode for X/Emacs: yes
LaTeX tutorial: yes
cfg file for epslatex terminal: yes
TeX *.sty for lua/tikz terminal: no
TeX files will be installed in /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/gnuplot
(use –with-texdir=DIR to change)
Help file: yes (always), in ${datarootdir}/gnuplot/4.4/gnuplot.gih
PostScript prologue files: yes (always)

it’s different from the output you present. Will gnuplot install correctly? (I use Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)

Thanks,

Marios

By: biggeoff

biggeoff — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 02:49:42 +0000

Hello author

I was banging my head off a wall trying to install Gnuplot on my Ubuntu partition. Many thanks for the help, now I am taking my work home and cant seem to relax!!

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