Re: installing Octave, Gnuplot, Aquaterm on Mac ppc.

[John B. Thoo]

On Oct 10, 2006, at 5:02 AM, Malte Köster wrote:

> Hello!
> I wan't to use octave with gnuplot and aquaterm on my mac (ppc).
> I installed Octave, Gnuplot 4.0 and AquaTerm 1.0.1
>
> octave works fine, however I can't plot neither from octave nor from
> gnuplot, since it doesn't work together with Aquaterm. I always get
> the error message:
>
> octave:1> plot(5)
> dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libaquaterm.1.0.0.dylib
>    Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/gnuplot
>    Reason: image not found
>
> the same message appears when I try to start gnuplot on its own.
> The message requests for libaqyaterm.1.0.0 even though i installed
> version 1.0.1
> how can I handle this?
>
> thx,
> malte

Hi.  I ran into this problem recently.  Two possible solutions are

1. In  /usr/local/lib  type

  sudo cp libaquaterm.1.0.1.dylib libaquaterm.1.0.0.dylib

The full discussion is here:

<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot/ 
browse_thread/thread/6fd6fbab0bdaa691/e941d25c2d8ad1d3? 
lnk=gst&q=aquaterm&rnum=6#e941d25c2d8ad1d3>

2. Build/install gnuplot-4.0 from source

   <http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net>

Good luck.

---John.