[OS X TeX] GNUPLOT on Mac
Aaron Jackson
jackson at msrce.howard.edu
Thu May 24 00:39:29 CEST 2007
I'm not sure what shell you are using, but you may need to do a
``rehash'', or open up a new shell. Usually, new apps are not added
to your path cache.
On May 23, 2007, at 6:27 PM, Joshua Smith wrote:
>
> On May 23, 2007, at 11:55 AM, Aaron Jackson wrote:
>
>> Aquaterm is a small app that other programs can use to display
>> graphical output. Gnuplot does not require Aquaterm, however
>> installing it is highly recommended. Gnuplot has to display plots
>> somehow, so it uses Aquaterm if it is available, if not it can use
>> X11. If you never want to see the plots (within gnuplot itself),
>> then gnuplot can save them directly to disk as LaTeX, pdf, eps,
>> png,... files, which means, in this case, that X11 and Aquaterm
>> are not needed.
>>
>> Gnuplot is very easy to compile. A simple
>>
>> ./configure
>> make
>> make check
>> make install
>>
>> should do the trick (assuming that you have Aquaterm installed,
>> otherwise skip the make check step). If the configure stops for
>> any reason (perhaps a missing readline lib if I remember), you can
>> disable the check that is failing (type ./configure --help for
>> options). You wont need it anyway if you are not directly using
>> gnuplot.
>
> I followed these directions (except for installing Aquaterm because
> I only want the .gnuplot files for TikZ), and I thought everything
> proceeded fine. I did not see any error messages about an
> installation failure. However, when I type "which gnuplot" I get
>
> no gnuplot in /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/texbin /usr/local/bin
>
> I also tried Jeremy's suggestion of using ./configure --with-
> readline=builtin but that did not seem to make a difference.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Josh
>
>
>
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