[OS X TeX] GNUPLOT on Mac

[Jean-Claude DE SOZA]

Bonsoir,

Le 11 sept. 08 à 20:46, Peter Vamos a écrit :

> OK, I installed gnuplot-4.2.3 precisely as per
> Vic Norton's instructions at 16:20 -0400 14/8/08:
>
>> OK. Here is a really oddball way to install gnuplot-4.2.3 in /usr/ 
>> local/bin on a Mac---but it will work.
>>
>> 1. go to <http://octave.sourceforge.net/>
>> 2. click on the "Octave.app for Mac OS X" link
>> 3. download the appropriate "2008-04-26 binary of Octave 3.0.1"
>> 4. open the resulting DMG file
>> 5. open the gnuplot-4.2.3 DMG the Extras folder
>> 6. drop Gnuplot.app into your applications folder
>> 7. go to /usr/local/bin in terminal and do
>> 8. $ sudo ln -sf "/Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/ 
>> gnuplot"
>
> Checked everything is in place including the link
>> 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
>>
>>         #!/usr/local/bin/gnuplot
>
> Unfortunately gnuplot crashes immediately after launching, by either  
> of the methods above, reporting that
>
> exec '/Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot'
> dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.4.dylib
>   Referenced from: /Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/ 
> gnuplot-4.2.3
>   Reason: image not found
> /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}" "${ROOT}/bin/gnuplot-4.2.3" "$@"
> 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,
>
> Can anyone help please?
>
> Peter

If you want to use gnuplot with tikz, you need to install it from  
source and not like above.
You don't need X11.
I recommand you to read all the thread about "GNUPLOT on Mac" on the  
list. I explained how to install gnuplot.

Jean-Claude DE SOZA

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