Re: octave & octave-forge install instructions for Mac OS X 10.4.x

[Marius Schamschula]

Henry,

On Jul 1, 2005, at 9:43 PM, Henry F. Mollet wrote:

> gnuplot: unable to open display ''
> gnuplot: X11 aborted.
>
> Must have found X11 but not happy yet either.

This is a well known issue:

Your DISPLAY variable is not set.

Somewhere in your shell profile you need to set

DISPLAY=:0.0

This allows an octave session running in the Terminal.app to talk to 
X11.

The easier way to teset this is to start X11 and run octave and/or 
gnuplot from within a xterm.

However, you really want to run octave in the Terminal.app: drag and 
drop, etc.

Marius
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