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Re: Kubuntu , which terminal?

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On Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:46:32 +0200, Jörg Buchholz wrote:

> 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

Thank you! Installing gnuplot-x11 did the trick. Lovely.

-- 
Dieter Britz

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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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