Re: gnuplot no longer works

[Dushan Mitrovich]

Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>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
>> another, 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.
>
>
> Youre gnuplot, aquaterm, etc are installed via MacPorts, correct?

Not quite.  AquaTerm may have have been installed via MacPorts, tho I no
longer remember the details from a few months ago; but gnuplot is the one
that came with Octave 3.0.0.
 
> Have you tried the MacPorts mail lists?
> 
>       http://www.macports.org/
 
No I haven't but thanks for the suggestion.

- Dushan