Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dieter Britz Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: Re: Default terminal Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 09:49:39 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 71 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 09:49:39 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="d220d3a2aff03d189f0466cf9333b8c4"; logging-data="21032"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18r02kh6iJi4aeNLlOPANbk/uB+3ZnNU3w=" User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iWodyWsq3L3MFNQzKkgOzD1Tavo= Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:3278 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