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Re: Kubuntu , which terminal?

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On 07.04.2015 09:23, Dieter Britz wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Apr 2015 19:15:58 +0200, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
>
>> Am 06.04.2015 um 14:43 schrieb Dieter Britz:
>>> I have a new Kubuntu system and installed gnuplot. What terminal type
>>> should I set when plotting on the konsole screen?
>>
>> You don't want to be plotting on the konsole.  Or rather: I massively
>> doubt you'd really want to do that.  You want to have a graphical output
>> terminal, like x11, wxt or qt.  But this:
>>
>>> Gunplot starts with "unknown".
>>
>> indicates your freshly installed gnuplot has none of those available (or
>> they would have been the start-up value).
>>
>> That pretty certainly means you installed gnuplot from source, and
>> didn't really get that right.  There must have been dozens of messages
>> about things configure couldn't find on your machine.  At least some of
>> those were important.
>>
>> A binary package from your distribution would surely have worked better
>> for you.  Failing that you'll at least have to install several packages
>> with -devel or something in their names, so programs can be built using
>> the installed graphical subsystems.
>
> Thanks. My system was installed for me, including gnuplot.
> Can I find out whether it is in the repository? I am thinking
> that if it is, I could remove gnuplot and then install it again,
> using apt-get, and that might work better. Actually I don't often
> plot directly on the terminal, usually into an eps file, and that
> works.
>

You need the package gnuplot-x11 or gnuplot-qt for grapfical display 
output. If you will use gnuplt 5 than you need gnuplot5, gnuplot5-qt 
and/or gnuplot5-x11.

Jörg

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Kubuntu , which terminal? Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2015-04-06 12:43 +0000
  Re: Kubuntu , which terminal? Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker@t-online.de> - 2015-04-06 19:15 +0200
    Re: Kubuntu , which terminal? Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2015-04-07 07:23 +0000
      Re: Kubuntu , which terminal? Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4news@freenet.de> - 2015-04-07 11:46 +0200
        Re: Kubuntu , which terminal? Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2015-04-08 12:42 +0000

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