[Pkg-octave-devel] Plotting in octave

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Jan Vermeulen <extremist at tuks.co.za> [2006-06-30 15:04]:

> I can't get PLPlot to work in Octave 2.1. After placing 
> LOADPATH="/usr/share/plplot_octave//:" in my .octaverc, a call to plot 
> results in `Requested device xwin not available'.

Try installing the plplot9-driver-xwin or, better, plplot9-driver-gnome2
(and using toggle_plplot_use, as indicated by Thomas).  I just fixed a bug
in toggle_plplot_use.m in version 5.6.1-7.

-- 
Rafael