Re: Can't get Gnuplot to plot in Octave with AquaTerm

[Joe Koski]

on 7/25/06 1:43 PM, Josh Wiebe at address@hidden wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm using OS X 10.4.7 on a G4 processor.  I installed the octave-bin.tar.gz package from http://hpc.sourceforge.net <http://hpc.sourceforge.net> / and followed the instructions.  Following that I installed AquaTerm 1.0 and then Gnuplot 4.0.0.  From terminal /usr/local/bin/gnuplot I am able to set 'set term aqua'  (without the quotations) and then plot to AquaTerm with Gnuplot.  However, from Octave I am unable to plot.  The command plot (x) , where x is previously defined, does not plot and does not give an error message.  If I use the command gset terminal aqua I am able to plot but apparently this command is being discontinued.
>
> From what I've read in the message archives it appears that I will need to create .gnuplotrc and .bashrc files in my home directory to allow octave to pipe instructions to gnuplot.  Specific instructions on how to do this are much appreciated.
>
> Josh
>  
Josh,

On my system which was recently upgraded to OS X 10.4.7, I have, among other things, the following lines in my .bash_profile and .bashrc files.

PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
export PATH
export GNUTERM=aqua
export DISPLAY=:0.0

You can create these files with any text editor (I prefer TextWrangler for this). What I usually do is create a file called new.bash_profile in my home directory. I test it by entering source new.bash_profile while in the home directory with terminal.app. Then it is possible to cd to any directory and run octave with gnuplot and aquaterm. When you’re happy with your new.bash_profile, in your home directory, cp new.bash_profile .bash_profile, and you will create a .bash_profile file that you can see by doing an ls –a. When you open terminal.app, it will automatically read .bash_profile. If you plan to use X11, also add the same lines to .bashrc or reference .bash_profile in .bashrc.

Joe