Re: An error message concerning plot

[Ben Abbott]

> On Nov 3, 2014, at 8:32 PM, mpender <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> This is similar to the problem that I am having.  I used the binary installer
> for Octave 3.8.0 on Mac OS X 10.9.4.  I can use the full graphical
> interface, but the plot command from the command line interface chokes with
> the similar error message:
> 
> octave:19> plot(tr)
> 
> gnuplot> set terminal aqua enhanced title "Figure 1"  font "*,6" dashlength
> 1
>                      ^
>         line 0: unknown or ambiguous terminal type; type just 'set
> terminal' for a list
> 
> octave:20> 
> 
> I did install aquaterm from http://aquaterm.sourceforge.net, but it has not
> resolved the problem.  From what I'm reading in this thread, uninstalling
> Octave from the binary installer and then reinstalling won't really fix the
> problem since homebrew does not configure terminals either.  Any suggestions
> how to proceed?

Your Gnuplot wasn't built to display graphics.

This has been a problem with the Gnuplot from Homebrew.  Are you using 
Homebrew? If so ...

        brew uninstall gnuplot;
        brew install gnuplot --with-x

Ben