On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:47 AM, Xenia <yor...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>[...]
> I tried following this instruction:
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Gnuplot#Unix_or_Mac
>
> But then I got:
> ---------------------
> $ ./prepare
>
> ./prepare: 47: aclocal: not found
>
> Some part of the preparation process failed.
> Please refer to INSTALL for details.
> ---------------------
>
> And in "INSTALL" and "INSTALL.gnu" the first step is to do
> $ ./configure
> but I only have a configure.in and configure.vms -file.
> I'm quite confused.

Most likely you are missing some of the "build" tools.   Look
for a package called "build-essential".  You may need to add
some -dev packages for various libraries needed by gnuplot.
You might check the dependencies for debian gnuplot and
make sure you have the -dev versions of all the libraries.

-- 
George N. White III <aa...@chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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