Installing Gnuplot Version 5.0

In my Ubuntu 14.04 something happened to gnuplot app. When I invoke a command gnuplot filename.gnu no canvas is generated. I think it began about a month ago but at that time I worked on this machine via a remote desktop and I thought, mistakenly, that the plot actually was generated on the major machine and I could not see it. I operated at that time via a laptop. So, today is the first day I am testing this software on my desktop and lo and behold no plot is generated.

When command is run Ubuntu does not come to the command prompt. It gets suspended and waits. If I click RETURN button, the command prompt will again appear but where is the plot?

I hope I made my plight clear.

Needles to say I have used gnuplot many times in the past although perhaps in Ubunutu VM which I will test shortly.

I also made sure that gnuplot is installed, trying to do

Quote:
sudo apt-get install gnuplot
The result was that I do have it installed.

What is the problem?

Thanks, - A.

Hi there. My environment is Ubuntu 12.04 OS. I have an example of the files I create with gfortran and gnuplot. The gnuplot draws this picture from a data file with 2D Cartesian coordinates. It is perpective projection. I need to color some parts of the plot (various lines) in different colors because some other details must also be drawn and I feel that the resulting network will be confusing. Gnuplot user manuals treat this subject but only in conjunction with lines drawn through a formula like sin(x), etc. I don't have that. All I have is columns of floating point numbers. Is there way I can draw lines of different color with gnuplot 4.6?

Thanks, - A.

Trying to work with gnuplot in Ubuntu 12.04 I run into confusing comments about binary vs. ASCII files. Take this as an example for instance. Looking for a good explanation I open this link. It is an outstanding sample of confusion and obfuscation. My own understanding is that binary is an executable file and ASCII is a source file. With gnuplot it is all upside down. I am confused.

Thanks,- A.

Chapter 17 of gnuplot pdf manual (Mouse Input) says "The x11, pm, windows, ggi, and wxt terminals allow interaction with the current plot using the mouse." I wonder if my Ubuntu 13.04 has any of those, if not, then perhaps the three terminals (Terminal, UXTerm, Xterm) I can invoke here, maybe they also have the same property? The proper term is: are they mouse capable? Thanks, - A.

I am reading a gnuplot pdf FAQ. In section 3.13 it says: "This requires you to write contours into a temporary file using the table terminal." Then I google and all I get is terminal-table. It says: install terminal-table by applying this command:

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$ sudo gem install terminal-table
What is it all about? What is a table terminal? What is a terminal-table? It looks like terminal table is to print tables in a terminal, right?

Thanks, - A.

I tried to install bluegriffon. Didn't work with apt-get install (error: unable to locate package bluegriffon).
I installed compiler (with apt-get install build-essential)
then I unpacked the "bluegriffon-1.7.2.Ubuntu13.04.x86_64.tar.bz2" that I downloaded from their website
then I changed to bluegriffon folder with the unpacked files and I tried to compile the package but the "./configure command" did not work (error : -su: ./configu No such file or directory)
What should I do now?

Hi there. I have Ubuntu 14.04 installed. Actually I have been doing a lot of work in this OS for about a year. The thing I cannot still comprehend is how to find files I installed. In this particular case I need glut.h for g++ compiler. So I go here, do this command;

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sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev

And find out that I already have the newest version (which I have suspected since I recall installing it).

So, the next step is to find the glut.h file and reference it with #include command. I cannot find it anywhere. This website says it has to be he

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/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglut*

Why's the asterisk? Is it a footnote or part of the code?

I don't seem to have /usr/ directory. I cannot find it anywhere.

How does Ubuntu directory work?

Thanks, - A.

Can someone please help me to install Gartoon Redux 1.11 icons on my laptop? I already downloaded the file, but I'm having trouble getting the packet to be install. So if someone could help that would be great.

So far I've try the follwing to install the packet,
Downloals/Gartoon Redux 1.11/./configure

Downloads.Gartoon Redux 1.11/./configure make

Information about my system:
I'm running puppy linix Tahrpup 6.0


Thank you for your help

Hi Everybody.....
I'm new to this site and new to Linux ( Ubuntu 12.04) generally. I am an old goat mechanical engineer with years of electronic instrumentation design experience. I am connecting several of my old HP digital oscilloscopes and logic analyzers to a Ubuntu box via GPIB (ieee 488) interface. I have the interface working well using the open source ( Sourceforge) "Linux-GPIB" kernel module. I can remotely control the instruments using "Linux-GPIB"'s "ibterm" terminal utility. However "ibterm" doesn't provide a means to do a scope screen dump to a file. A guy on EEBLOG published a short C language 30 line source code to perfome this function. Unfortunately it isn't a package with makefile.am, makefile .in, configure etc which I understand I could compile using the typical ./config, make, checkinstall procedure. It is just the c source code text. Soooo.....do I use gcc directly? If so, how do I run gcc in a manner to be able to uninstall all the various files it will make? Or ?? What is the procedure for automake in this situation ? Or....? I'm kind of lost. Your suggestions would be helpful.
Cheers.
Alan Jacobs
Green Bay, Wisconsin USA

Hello all,
I'm having real trouble trying to get SVN 1.8.9 installed on a linux box which is now my responsibility to look after, I think it is centos or scientific linux.
EDIT: it is Scientific Linux release 6.4 (Carbon)

What I've done so far: SVN 1.6 was installed and working fine. I installed smartsvn so that I had a 'nice' GUI to look at the repos on the machine. Smartsvn then upgraded my repos. The svn client on the command line does not work with the upgraded repos. I tried yum install svn but the latest svn is already installed (1.6). I then installed 1.7 from source and still that version was too old. I then installed 1.8.9 from source - yey this worked locally fine. There are cron jobs that run and use the svn client to push to an svn server The SVN I installed from source does not commit properly and gives this error:
svn: E170000: Unrecognized URL scheme for 'http://.....' I googled around and found I need to install svn with configure --with-serf option. This fails as the SVN install needs serf 1.2.1 or newer. So I install serf 1.3.something from an rpm. That installs fine and I retry the configure step but it fails giving the same error. rpm -ql serf returns: /usr/lib/libserf-1.so
/usr/lib/libserf-1.so.1
/usr/lib/libserf-1.so.1.3.0
So I think 1.3 is installed...?
Does anyone know how to make the configure step of svn know where serf is? --with-serf=/usr/lib/ did not work at all for me.

Thanks for any help and I'm happy to post more information.

Cheers