gnuplot no longer works

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 18, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Dushan Mitrovich wrote:

> Ben Abbott <bpabbott at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Feb 17, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Dushan Mitrovich wrote:
>>> I'm using Octave 3.0 under Mac OSX and have also installed gnuplot
>>> 4.2.2 that was included in the package.  After the initial install,
>>> gnuplot displayed the plots as expected.
>>>
>>> About a month ago, on the advice of AppleCare Support to try to fix
>>> another, unrelated problem (getting FTP transfers to work), I did a
>>> so-called 'archive-install'.  After that, not only did the FTP  
>>> problem
>>> persist, but I've been discovering a number of other imporatnt  
>>> things
>>> that no longer worked, e.g. printing, and now gnuplot.  Here's what
>>> happens.
>>>
>>> I've re-installed Xcode, X11, and AquaTerm, and also gnuplot.  To  
>>> test
>>> it out I invoked gnuplot by itself, with out going thru Octave.   
>>> First
>>> I opened AquaTerm, then gnuplot, and tried to plot the sine function
>>> using 'aqua'.
>>>
>>>                          ---------------------
>>>  [~]$
>>>  => exec '/Applications/GnuPlot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot'
>>>
>>>    G N U P L O T
>>>    Version 4.2 patchlevel 2
>>>    last modified 31 Aug 2007
>>>    System: Darwin 8.11.1
>>>
>>>    Copyright (C) 1986 - 1993, 1998, 2004, 2007
>>>    Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley and many others
>>>
>>>    Type `help` to access the on-line reference manual.
>>>    The gnuplot FAQ is available from http://www.gnuplot.info/faq/
>>>
>>>    Send bug reports and suggestions to <http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot
>>>
>>>
>>>  Terminal type set to 'aqua'
>>>  gnuplot> plot sin(x)
>>>                          ---------------------
>>>
>>> This produced exactly nothing, not even an error message.  So I
>>> tried X11:
>>>
>>>                          ---------------------
>>> gnuplot> set terminal x11
>>> Terminal type set to 'x11'
>>> Options are '0'
>>> Expected X11 driver: /tmp/gnuplot-i386/libexec/gnuplot/4.2/ 
>>> gnuplot_x11
>>> Exec failed: No such file or directory
>>> See 'help x11' for more details
>>>
>>> gnuplot> plot sin(x)
>>> Expected X11 driver: /tmp/gnuplot-i386/libexec/gnuplot/4.2/ 
>>> gnuplot_x11
>>> Exec failed: No such file or directory
>>> See 'help x11' for more details
>>>
>>> gnuplot>
>>>                          ---------------------
>>>
>>> Unsurprizingly, this also produced nothing beyond the error message.
>>> The '/tmp' directory does not contain 'gnuplot-i386', but I did find
>>> 'gnuplot_x11' in two places:
>>>
>>>   .opt/local/libexec/gnuplot/4.0             <-- call this 'locA'
>>>   .opt/local/var/macports/software/gnuplot/4.0.0.3+darwin_8/locA
>>>
>>> I'm out of ideas what to try next.  Suggestions would be most
>>> appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Youre gnuplot, aquaterm, etc are installed via MacPorts, correct?
>
> Not quite.  AquaTerm may have have been installed via MacPorts, tho  
> I no
> longer remember the details from a few months ago; but gnuplot is  
> the one
> that came with Octave 3.0.0.
>
>> Have you tried the MacPorts mail lists?
>>
>> 	http://www.macports.org/
>
> No I haven't but thanks for the suggestion.
>
> - Dushan


This part of your prior post appears to indicate (to me) that macports  
(or perhaps its old name darwinports) was present. Where is the "opt"  
directory?

>>   .opt/local/libexec/gnuplot/4.0             <-- call this 'locA'
>>   .opt/local/var/macports/software/gnuplot/4.0.0.3+darwin_8/locA

Ben