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Re: Default terminal

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On Fri, 01 Apr 2016 07:28:35 +0000, Dieter Britz wrote:

> On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 19:41:01 +0200, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> 
>> Am 31.03.2016 um 16:27 schrieb Dieter Britz:
>>> At work, under Kubuntu, I installed gnuplot.
>> 
>> "Installed" how, exactly.  Odds are you either picked the wrong binary
>> package from Kubuntu's selection, or, if you built it from source
>> yourself, you didn't have enough development packages installed to get
>> any of the graphical terminals built into your own binary.
>> 
>>> I tried several set term ... but nothing I tried works.
>> 
>> If there's an interactive graphical terminal built into the binary, you
>> shouldn't have to try anything.  gnuplot starts with the interactive
>> one pre-activated, if there is any, and it tells you which that is,
>> too:
>> 
>> $ gnuplot
>> 
>>          G N U P L O T Version 5.0 patchlevel 1    last modified
>>          2015-06-07
>> 
>>          Copyright (C) 1986-1993, 1998, 2004, 2007-2015 Thomas
>>          Williams,
>>          Colin Kelley and many others
>> 
>>          gnuplot home:     http://www.gnuplot.info faq, bugs, etc:
>>          type "help FAQ"
>>          immediate help:   type "help"  (plot window: hit 'h')
>> 
>> Terminal type set to 'wxt'
>> gnuplot> plot x
> 
> I installed it using apt-get, i.e.
> sudo apt-get install gnuplot - about 4 weeks ago, so I ought to have the
> latest v ersion (?).
> 
> I get this:
> 
> ~> gnuplot
> 
>         G N U P L O T Version 4.6 patchlevel 4    last modified
>         2013-10-02 Build System: Linux i686
> 
>         Copyright (C) 1986-1993, 1998, 2004, 2007-2013 Thomas Williams,
>         Colin Kelley and many others
> 
>         gnuplot home:     http://www.gnuplot.info faq, bugs, etc:   type
>         "help FAQ"
>         immediate help:   type "help"  (plot window: hit 'h')
> 
> Terminal type set to 'unknown'
> 
> OK, I see it's version 4.6. How do I tell apt-get to go and get the
> latest?

PS: I just tried installing it again:

> sudo apt-get install gnuplot
[sudo] password for britz: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
gnuplot is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded.

It doesn't go for the latest.
-- 
Dieter Britz

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    Re: Default terminal Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 07:32 +0000
  Re: Default terminal Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker@t-online.de> - 2016-03-31 19:41 +0200
    Re: Default terminal Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 07:28 +0000
      Re: Default terminal Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 09:49 +0000
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          Re: Default terminal Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2016-04-04 08:16 +0000
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