<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Sep 11, 2008, at 1:20 PM, Jean-Claude DE SOZA wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Bonsoir,<div><br><div><div>Le 11 sept. 08 à 20:46, Peter Vamos a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Liberation Sans'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><div>OK, I installed gnuplot-4.2.3 precisely as per</div><div>Vic Norton's instructions at 16:20 -0400 14/8/08:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">OK. Here is a really oddball way to install gnuplot-4.2.3 in /usr/local/bin on a Mac---but it will work.<br><br>1. go to <<a href="http://octave.sourceforge.net/">http://octave.sourceforge.net/</a>><br>2. click on the "Octave.app for Mac OS X" link<br>3. download the appropriate "2008-04-26 binary of Octave 3.0.1"<br>4. open the resulting DMG file<br>5. open the gnuplot-4.2.3 DMG the Extras folder<br>6. drop Gnuplot.app into your applications folder<br>7. go to /usr/local/bin in terminal and do<br>8. $ sudo ln -sf "/Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot<span></span>"</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Checked everything is in place including the link<br></div><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">You are done. Now gnuplot-4.2.3 can be opened by double-clicking Gnuplot.app in your application folder or by starting a gnuplot script with the shebang line<br><x-tab> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></x-tab><br><x-tab> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></x-tab>#!/usr/local/bin/gnuplot</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately gnuplot crashes immediately after launching, by either of the methods above, reporting that</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">exec '/Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot'</blockquote><blockquote style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.4.dylib</blockquote><blockquote style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "> Referenced from: /Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot-4.2.3</blockquote><blockquote style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "> Reason: image not found</blockquote><blockquote style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">/Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot: line 75: 1675 Trace/BPT trap GNUTERM="${GNUTERM}" GNUPLOT_HOME="${GNUPLOT_HOME}" PATH="${PATH}" DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}" HOME="${HOME}" GNUHELP="${GNUHELP}" DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH="${DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH}" GNUPLOT_PS_DIR="${GNUPLOT_PS_DIR}" DISPLAY="${DISPLAY}" GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR="${GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR}" "${ROOT}/bin/gnuplot-4.2.3" "$@"</blockquote><div>I don't have X11 installed, I read somewhere that AquaTerm is enough so I downloaded that.Running 10.5.4 on an Intel Mac. The main reason I want gnuplot is that I want to use Tikz for plotting functions,</div><div><br></div><div>Can anyone help please?</div><div><br></div><div>Peter</div></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>If you want to use gnuplot with tikz, you need to install it from source and not like above. </div><div>You don't need X11.</div><div>I recommand you to read all the thread about "GNUPLOT on Mac" on the list. I explained how to install gnuplot.</div><div><br></div><div>Jean-Claude DE SOZA</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>You can also install it from Fink which is what I have done:</div><div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>G N U P L O T</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Version 4.2 patchlevel 3 </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>last modified Mar 2008</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>System: Darwin 9.4.0</div><div><br></div><div>Only you need to use the unstable branch to get the latest version.</div><div>...Peter</div><div><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div></div>----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br>TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br>List Reminders and Etiquette: <a href="http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/list/">http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/list/</a><br>List Archive: <a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/">http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/</a><br>TeX on Mac OS X Website: <a href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/">http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/</a><br>List Info: <a href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex</a><br><br></div><br></body></html>