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

[Thomas Weber]

On 14/02/08 21:12 +0100, Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> > 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.

It's not too difficult to plot directly to a file, without a window
popping up, if that is what you need:

http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Saving-pngs-without-plotting-to-screen-first-p14621840.html

	Thomas