Octave

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 23, 2008, at 10:24 AM, Robert Fong-tom wrote:

>
> On Nov 22, 2008, at 11:57 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 09:47:55PM -0500, Robert Fong-tom said:
>> [...]
>>> is placed in the .profile and .bashrc file but this isn't seem to be
>>> working for me since I get the terminal type set to 'unknown'
>>> report when
>>> I type /opt/local/bin/gnuplot. Oh! I just notices that when I called
>>> gnuplot as in the previous statement I get
>>>
>>> Unknown or ambigious terminal name 'aqua'
>>>
>>> before the GNUPLOT preamble printout. Don't know what this
>>> means ... do
>>> you?
>>
>> If it isn't saying "Terminal type set to 'aqua'" then it sounds
>> like gnuplot
>> didn't see aquaterm properly.  Since you went through some
>> machinations to
>> get to this point, you may have installed gnuplot before aquaterm was
>> properly installed via MacPorts.  In that case, just uninstall and
>> reinstall
>> gnuplot, see if that does it.
>>
>> Bryan
>>
> Gnuplot was installed as a dependent of Octave. If I uninstall it
> wont this "break" this dependency so that Octave won't be able to
> plot anymore?

Uninstall gnuplot using the "-f" option (forces an uninstall but does  
not remove the ports that depend upon gnuplot).

	sudo port -f uninstall gnuplot

I've not used MacPorts myself. I'm trusting its documentation.

	http://guide.macports.org/#using.port

Then reinstall gnuplot.

	sudo port install gnuplot

Ben