Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeder5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Karl Ratzsch Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: Re: Compatiblity with gnuplot and versions of linux Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 18:21:01 +0100 Organization: solani.org Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: solani.org 1549560060 4654 127.0.0.43 (7 Feb 2019 17:21:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 17:21:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.5.0 Content-Language: en-GB Cancel-Lock: sha1:9ACKp5iwLl+0L6kATEhGgwUcFUQ= In-Reply-To: X-User-ID: eJwFwYkBwCAIA8CVGuXRcSCS/Ufone9AMC08zOXaAzRXT5z0j4Vcds+8rNQ8seHBGlmJxLo/Kp4SHg== Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:4147 Am 07.02.2019 um 09:17 schrieb Jean-Pierre Coulon: > On Wed, 6 Feb 2019, Ethan Merritt wrote: > >> Of course not. >> >> Gnuplot is largely developed on linux. All version up to and >> including >> the latest and greatest development source (version 5.3) work just >> fine >> on any linux variant. > > Forgive my ignorance as a Windows user, but does the linux > installation require expertise to compile the sources? Or is there > already a linux executable present when you uncompress the .tar.gz ? No executable of course, but compiling is rather straightforward. The hitch is that you have to install a number of development packages to get all the fancy gnuplot terminals. Here's a list for ubuntu, and also one for CentOS in the comments below. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29526044/installing-gnuplot-5-0-on-ubuntu/31819448#31819448 After you've got your admin to install those, it's ideally just three shell commands, check the README and INSTALL files in the source package. Good luck! Karl