[OS X TeX] GNUPLOT on Mac

[Aaron Jackson]

I'm not sure what shell you are using, but you may need to do a  
``rehash'', or open up a new shell.  Usually, new apps are not added  
to your path cache.

On May 23, 2007, at 6:27 PM, Joshua Smith wrote:

>
> On May 23, 2007, at 11:55 AM, Aaron Jackson wrote:
>
>> Aquaterm is a small app that other programs can use to display  
>> graphical output.  Gnuplot does not require Aquaterm, however  
>> installing it is highly recommended.  Gnuplot has to display plots  
>> somehow, so it uses Aquaterm if it is available, if not it can use  
>> X11.  If you never want to see the plots (within gnuplot itself),  
>> then gnuplot can save them directly to disk as LaTeX, pdf, eps,  
>> png,... files, which means, in this case, that X11 and Aquaterm  
>> are not needed.
>>
>> Gnuplot is very easy to compile.  A simple
>>
>> ./configure
>> make
>> make check
>> make install
>>
>> should do the trick (assuming that you have Aquaterm installed,  
>> otherwise skip the make check step).  If the configure stops for  
>> any reason (perhaps a missing readline lib if I remember), you can  
>> disable the check that is failing (type ./configure --help for  
>> options).  You wont need it anyway if you are not directly using  
>> gnuplot.
>
> I followed these directions (except for installing Aquaterm because  
> I only want the .gnuplot files for TikZ), and I thought everything  
> proceeded fine.  I did not see any error messages about an  
> installation failure.  However, when I type "which gnuplot" I get
>
> no gnuplot in /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/texbin /usr/local/bin
>
> I also tried Jeremy's suggestion of using ./configure --with- 
> readline=builtin but that did not seem to make a difference.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Josh
>
>
>
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