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

[Folkert van Heusden]

Package: octave
Version: 1:2.9.19-2
Severity: normal


When trying to plot a graph from octave, it fails to do so with all
kinds of gnuplot 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


gnuplot> 16 156.654981566774
         ^
         line 0: invalid command


gnuplot> 32 91.2148803309808
         ^
         line 0: invalid command


gnuplot> 64 38.6920812826882
         ^
         line 0: invalid command


gnuplot> 128 16.9490940352743
         ^
         line 0: invalid command


gnuplot> 256 8.92561506009524
         ^
         line 0: invalid command


gnuplot> 512 3.40880581041852
         ^
         line 0: invalid command


gnuplot> 1024 2.57375585493804
         ^
         line 0: invalid command


gnuplot> e
         ^
         line 0: invalid command


mauer:~/bin# dpkg --list | grep gnuplot
ii  gnuplot                             4.2.2-1                                A command-line driven interactive plotting p
ii  gnuplot-nox                         4.2.2-1                                A command-line driven interactive plotting p
ii  gnuplot-x11                         4.2.2-1                                X11-terminal driver for gnuplot


script: http://www.wraith.sf.ca.us/ntp/allan.oct


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages octave depends on:
ii  octave2.9                     1:2.9.19-2 GNU Octave language for numerical 

octave recommends no packages.

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