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

[Folkert van Heusden]

> > 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));

Tried it under X11 and then things work. So it seems X11 is required for
it to run. I thought and hoped it would emit a png/gif/jpg-file.
So the bug can be closed.


Thanks a lot,

Folkert van Heusden

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