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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

#2867 — Kubuntu , which terminal?

I have a new Kubuntu system and installed gnuplot.
What terminal type should I set when plotting on the
konsole screen? Gunplot starts with "unknown".

-- 
Dieter Britz

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#2868

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.

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#2869

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.
-- 
Dieter Britz

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#2870

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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#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

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