[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#461558: octave fails to invoke gnuplot

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Folkert van Heusden <folkert at vanheusden.com> [2008-02-12 14:17]:

> Just tried 3.0 and it gives the same errors:
> 
> gnuplot> set terminal aqua 1 enhanced
>                       ^
>          line 0: unknown or ambiguous terminal type; type just 'set terminal' for a list
> 
> 
> gnuplot> plot "-" using ($1):($2) axes x1y1 title "" with lines linestyle 1 ;
>               ^
>          line 0: use 'set term' to set terminal type first

Have you by any chance set the environment variable GNUTERM?  What does the
follow yield for you?

    $ echo $GNUTERM
    $ GNUTERM=x11 /usr/bin/octave3.0 -qf
    octave:1> plot (randn (10, 1));

-- 
Rafael