Chasing an updated binary for gnuplot 4.2.x - Graphics

In article <1188324009.587553.184380@q4g2000prc.googlegroups.com>,
<psummers@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>I am trying to find the latest version of gnuplot for my linux
>system.
>
>Where can I find a precompiled binary to install on my damnsmalllinux
>system?

The packaging of customized linux binaries is up to individual linux distros.
I have no idea whether damnsmalllinux provides such a package.

A quick look at the web page http://damnsmalllinux.org/
suggests that it is a Debian derivitive, in which case you may be able to
use the Debian package.
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnuplot/

>Can anyone point me in the right direction ?

In any case, building from source is really quite easy so long as you
do not need the latest cairo+pango based terminal drivers (which are
sensitive to the cairo and pango support library versions).

--
Ethan A Merritt

On Aug 29, 2:33 am, merr...@u.washington.edu (Ethan Merritt) wrote:
> In article <1188324009.587553.184...@q4g2000prc.googlegroups.com>,
>
> <psumm...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> >Hello All,
>
> >I am trying to find the latest version of gnuplot for my linux
> >system.
>
> >Where can I find a precompiled binary to install on my damnsmalllinux
> >system?
>
> The packaging of customized linux binaries is up to individual linux distros.
> I have no idea whether damnsmalllinux provides such a package.
>
> A quick look at the web pagehttp://damnsmalllinux.org/
> suggests that it is a Debian derivitive, in which case you may be able to
> use the Debian package.
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnuplot/
>
> >Can anyone point me in the right direction ?
>
> In any case, building from source is really quite easy so long as you
> do not need the latest cairo+pango based terminal drivers (which are
> sensitive to the cairo and pango support library versions).
>
> --
> Ethan A Merritt



Hi, Thanks for the suggestions.

I am trying to compile it now.

After doing the ./configure step it finishes with two errors
../configure line 70 /usr/bin/sort
../configure line 70 /usr/bin/sort

but these appear after the configure script has ended

I ran "make" anyway and all seemed to go well

And "make check" flew through heaps of graphs without any apparent
error.

All that is left is to do the "make install" but I do not know what
its purpose is?

Have run this now but it has failed with permission errors:

"unable to open '/usr/local/bin/gnuplot': Permission denies

Still some work to do Thanks Phil

In article <1188341986.491112.98560@x40g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
<psummers@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>On Aug 29, 2:33 am, merr...@u.washington.edu (Ethan Merritt) wrote:
>> In article <1188324009.587553.184...@q4g2000prc.googlegroups.com>,
>>
>> <psumm...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> >Hello All,
>>
>> >I am trying to find the latest version of gnuplot for my linux
>> >system.
>>
>> >Where can I find a precompiled binary to install on my damnsmalllinux
>> >system?
>>
>> The packaging of customized linux binaries is up to individual linux distros.
>> I have no idea whether damnsmalllinux provides such a package.
>>
>> A quick look at the web pagehttp://damnsmalllinux.org/
>> suggests that it is a Debian derivitive, in which case you may be able to
>> use the Debian package.
>> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnuplot/
>>
>> >Can anyone point me in the right direction ?
>>
>> In any case, building from source is really quite easy so long as you
>> do not need the latest cairo+pango based terminal drivers (which are
>> sensitive to the cairo and pango support library versions).
>
>Hi, Thanks for the suggestions.
>
>I am trying to compile it now.
>
>After doing the ./configure step it finishes with two errors
>./configure line 70 /usr/bin/sort
>./configure line 70 /usr/bin/sort

No idea what that might mean.

>but these appear after the configure script has ended
>
>I ran "make" anyway and all seemed to go well
>
>And "make check" flew through heaps of graphs without any apparent
>error.
>
>All that is left is to do the "make install" but I do not know what
>its purpose is?

Basically it just copies the files gnuplot and gnuplot_x11 into
appropriate system directories, and similarly with the various
supporting files (demos, postscript headers, help files, etc).

You can run gnuplot without installing it; that's what "make check"
does. But if you want to use x11 then you will need to set the
environmental variable GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR to whatever directory
gnuplot_x11 is living in.


>Have run this now but it has failed with permission errors:
>
>"unable to open '/usr/local/bin/gnuplot': Permission denies

Since /usr/local/bin is a system directory, you normally need to
root privilege to put files there.

>Still some work to do Thanks Phil

Sounds like you're good to go, except maybe for moving the
binaries to a system directory.


--
Ethan A Merritt

On Aug 29, 7:40 am, merr...@u.washington.edu (Ethan Merritt) wrote:
> In article <1188341986.491112.98...@x40g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
>
>
>
> <psumm...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> >On Aug 29, 2:33 am, merr...@u.washington.edu (Ethan Merritt) wrote:
> >> In article <1188324009.587553.184...@q4g2000prc.googlegroups.com>,
>
> >> <psumm...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> >> >Hello All,
>
> >> >I am trying to find the latest version of gnuplot for my linux
> >> >system.
>
> >> >Where can I find a precompiled binary to install on my damnsmalllinux
> >> >system?
>
> >> The packaging of customized linux binaries is up to individual linux distros.
> >> I have no idea whether damnsmalllinux provides such a package.
>
> >> A quick look at the web pagehttp://damnsmalllinux.org/
> >> suggests that it is a Debian derivitive, in which case you may be able to
> >> use the Debian package.
> >> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnuplot/
>
> >> >Can anyone point me in the right direction ?
>
> >> In any case, building from source is really quite easy so long as you
> >> do not need the latest cairo+pango based terminal drivers (which are
> >> sensitive to the cairo and pango support library versions).
>
> >Hi, Thanks for the suggestions.
>
> >I am trying to compile it now.
>
> >After doing the ./configure step it finishes with two errors
> >./configure line 70 /usr/bin/sort
> >./configure line 70 /usr/bin/sort
>
> No idea what that might mean.
>
> >but these appear after the configure script has ended
>
> >I ran "make" anyway and all seemed to go well
>
> >And "make check" flew through heaps of graphs without any apparent
> >error.
>
> >All that is left is to do the "make install" but I do not know what
> >its purpose is?
>
> Basically it just copies the files gnuplot and gnuplot_x11 into
> appropriate system directories, and similarly with the various
> supporting files (demos, postscript headers, help files, etc).
>
> You can run gnuplot without installing it; that's what "make check"
> does. But if you want to use x11 then you will need to set the
> environmental variable GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR to whatever directory
> gnuplot_x11 is living in.
>
> >Have run this now but it has failed with permission errors:
>
> >"unable to open '/usr/local/bin/gnuplot': Permission denies
>
> Since /usr/local/bin is a system directory, you normally need to
> root privilege to put files there.
>
> >Still some work to do Thanks Phil
>
> Sounds like you're good to go, except maybe for moving the
> binaries to a system directory.
>
> --
> Ethan A Merritt


Thanks for your help.
I can see by the forum you put a lot of effort into supporting gnuplot
and helping others.
Cheers Phil

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:59:46 -0700, psummers wrote:

> On Aug 29, 2:33 am, merr...@u.washington.edu (Ethan Merritt) wrote:
>> In article <1188324009.587553.184...@q4g2000prc.googlegroups.com>,
>>
>> <psumm...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> >Hello All,
>>
>> >I am trying to find the latest version of gnuplot for my linux system.
>>
>> >Where can I find a precompiled binary to install on my damnsmalllinux
>> >system?
>>
>> The packaging of customized linux binaries is up to individual linux
>> distros. I have no idea whether damnsmalllinux provides such a package.
>>
>> A quick look at the web pagehttp://damnsmalllinux.org/ suggests that it
>> is a Debian derivitive, in which case you may be able to use the Debian
>> package.
>> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnuplot/
>>
>> >Can anyone point me in the right direction ?
>>
>> In any case, building from source is really quite easy so long as you
>> do not need the latest cairo+pango based terminal drivers (which are
>> sensitive to the cairo and pango support library versions).
>>
>> --
>> Ethan A Merritt
>
>
>
> Hi, Thanks for the suggestions.
>
> I am trying to compile it now.
>
> After doing the ./configure step it finishes with two errors ./configure
> line 70 /usr/bin/sort
> ./configure line 70 /usr/bin/sort
>
> but these appear after the configure script has ended
>
> I ran "make" anyway and all seemed to go well
>
> And "make check" flew through heaps of graphs without any apparent
> error.
>
> All that is left is to do the "make install" but I do not know what its
> purpose is?
>
> Have run this now but it has failed with permission errors:
>
> "unable to open '/usr/local/bin/gnuplot': Permission denies

/usr/local/bin is the default installation prefix. If you are not root
then chances are you don't have permissions to write to this directory
(or any of its subdirectories).

If you don't have root privileges you can still specify an alternative
installation directory. Perhaps the easiest way to do this is during the
"configure" stage. Try configuring with:

./configure --prefix=/myinstalldir

where /myinstalldir is your alternative installation prefix (e.g. your
home directory). Then follow through the rest of the build/install
instructions.

Hope this helps,

--
Lionel B

On Aug 30, 5:40 pm, Lionel B <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:59:46 -0700, psummers wrote:
> > On Aug 29, 2:33 am, merr...@u.washington.edu (Ethan Merritt) wrote:
> >> In article <1188324009.587553.184...@q4g2000prc.googlegroups.com>,
>
> >> <psumm...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> >> >Hello All,
>
> >> >I am trying to find the latest version of gnuplot for my linux system.
>
> >> >Where can I find a precompiled binary to install on my damnsmalllinux
> >> >system?
>
> >> The packaging of customized linux binaries is up to individual linux
> >> distros. I have no idea whether damnsmalllinux provides such a package.
>
> >> A quick look at the web pagehttp://damnsmalllinux.org/suggests that it
> >> is a Debian derivitive, in which case you may be able to use the Debian
> >> package.
> >> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnuplot/
>
> >> >Can anyone point me in the right direction ?
>
> >> In any case, building from source is really quite easy so long as you
> >> do not need the latest cairo+pango based terminal drivers (which are
> >> sensitive to the cairo and pango support library versions).
>
> >> --
> >> Ethan A Merritt
>
> > Hi, Thanks for the suggestions.
>
> > I am trying to compile it now.
>
> > After doing the ./configure step it finishes with two errors ./configure
> > line 70 /usr/bin/sort
> > ./configure line 70 /usr/bin/sort
>
> > but these appear after the configure script has ended
>
> > I ran "make" anyway and all seemed to go well
>
> > And "make check" flew through heaps of graphs without any apparent
> > error.
>
> > All that is left is to do the "make install" but I do not know what its
> > purpose is?
>
> > Have run this now but it has failed with permission errors:
>
> > "unable to open '/usr/local/bin/gnuplot': Permission denies
>
> /usr/local/bin is the default installation prefix. If you are not root
> then chances are you don't have permissions to write to this directory
> (or any of its subdirectories).
>
> If you don't have root privileges you can still specify an alternative
> installation directory. Perhaps the easiest way to do this is during the
> "configure" stage. Try configuring with:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/myinstalldir
>
> where /myinstalldir is your alternative installation prefix (e.g. your
> home directory). Then follow through the rest of the build/install
> instructions.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> --
> Lionel B

Thanks Lionel, I got this compiled for my system and package manager
by using the --prefix option.

Regards Phil