X-FeedAbuse: http://nntpfeed.proxad.net/abuse.pl feeded by 78.192.65.63 Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.redatomik.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!news.muarf.org!news.roellig-ltd.de!open-news-network.org!news.swapon.de!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: Kubuntu , which terminal? Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 12:42:59 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <5522BF4E.1020906@t-online.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 12:42:59 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="7de6be06a096e5b0ede4a4483cc10a9f"; logging-data="1130"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/d4HJxLvLxcMjAF8Fm/sFltpC6RZDasKE=" User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uqF9ewcm/Pici1sOz+X8WK8oH6g= Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:2874 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