gnuplot no longer works

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 18, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Dushan Mitrovich wrote:

> Ben Abbott <bpabbott at mac.com> wrote:
>> On Feb 18, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Dushan Mitrovich wrote:
>>> Ben Abbott <bpabbott at mac.com> wrote:
>
>  <snip>
>
>>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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
>
> The 'opt' directory is in the topmost 'Root' volume.  Yes I did use
> MacPorts in the past, and did download an earlier gnuplot from it many
> months ago, but gnuplot 4.2.2 I got from the Octave package.
>
> Do you think this might be confusing the setup?
>
> - Dushan

I'm not familiar with macports (I use Fink), but what does the  
following pair of commands give you

	$ echo $GNUTERM
	$ echo $GNUTERMAPP

You might also check your path to be sure that the corrent gnuplot  
will be encountered first.

	$ echo $PATH

My path points to the applications installed by Fink first.

	/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ 
X11/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

I can't say if the problem is due to your duplicate gnuplots, or due  
to different version of gnuplot, or something else. However, if you  
have no reason for such an installation, I'd prune down to a single  
installation.

Ben