Re: gnuplot no longer works

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 17, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Dushan Mitrovich wrote:

> I'm using Octave 3.0 under Mac OSX and have also installed gnuplot  
> 4.2.2
> that was included in the package.  After the initial install, gnuplot
> displayed the plots as expected.
>
> About a month ago, on the advice of AppleCare Support to try to fix  
> an-
> other, unrelated problem (getting FTP transfers to work), I did a so- 
> called
> 'archive-install'.  After that, not only did the FTP problem  
> persist, but
> I've been discovering a number of other imporatnt things that no  
> longer
> worked, e.g. printing, and now gnuplot.  Here's what happens.
>
> I've re-installed Xcode, X11, and AquaTerm, and also gnuplot.  To test
> it out I invoked gnuplot by itself, with out going thru Octave.   
> First I
> opened AquaTerm, then gnuplot, and tried to plot the sine function  
> using
> 'aqua'.
>
>                           ---------------------
>  [~]$
>  => exec '/Applications/GnuPlot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot'
>
>          G N U P L O T
>          Version 4.2 patchlevel 2
>          last modified 31 Aug 2007
>          System: Darwin 8.11.1
>
>          Copyright (C) 1986 - 1993, 1998, 2004, 2007
>          Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley and many others
>
>          Type `help` to access the on-line reference manual.
>          The gnuplot FAQ is available from http://www.gnuplot.info/ 
> faq/
>
>          Send bug reports and suggestions to <http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot 
> >
>
>
>  Terminal type set to 'aqua'
>  gnuplot> plot sin(x)
>                           ---------------------
>
> This produced exactly nothing, not even an error message.  So I  
> tried X11:
>
>                           ---------------------
>  gnuplot> set terminal x11
>  Terminal type set to 'x11'
>  Options are '0'
>  Expected X11 driver: /tmp/gnuplot-i386/libexec/gnuplot/4.2/ 
> gnuplot_x11
>  Exec failed: No such file or directory
>  See 'help x11' for more details
>
>  gnuplot> plot sin(x)
>  Expected X11 driver: /tmp/gnuplot-i386/libexec/gnuplot/4.2/ 
> gnuplot_x11
>  Exec failed: No such file or directory
>  See 'help x11' for more details
>
>  gnuplot>
>                           ---------------------
>
> Unsurprizingly, this also produced nothing beyond the error message.
> The '/tmp' directory does not contain 'gnuplot-i386', but I did find
> 'gnuplot_x11' in two places:
>
>    .opt/local/libexec/gnuplot/4.0             <-- call this 'locA'
>    .opt/local/var/macports/software/gnuplot/4.0.0.3+darwin_8/locA
>
> I'm out of ideas what to try next.  Suggestions would be most  
> appreciated.
>
> - Dushan Mitrovich

Youre gnuplot, aquaterm, etc are installed via MacPorts, correct?

Have you tried the MacPorts mail lists?

        http://www.macports.org/

Ben