> On Apr 26, 2015, at 11:08 AM, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Apr 25, 2015, at 18:28, Ben Abbott <bpabb...@mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Apr 25, 2015, at 12:59 PM, Alexander Hansen 
>>> <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Apr 24, 2015, at 16:23, Ben Abbott <bpabb...@mac.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Apr 24, 2015, at 6:18 PM, Charles C. Kankelborg 
>>>>> <kan...@solar.physics.montana.edu> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Right now it's not possible to save plots from the octave command line 
>>>>> because of this bug:
>>>>> 
>>>>>   http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?42838
>>>>> 
>>>>> The suggested work-around is to back down from gnuplot 5.0 to 4.6.5. Is 
>>>>> there a way to do that in fink? I tried
>>>>> 
>>>>>   fink install gnuplot-4.6.5
>>>>> 
>>>>> but the package specification was not found. I suspect I'd have to get 
>>>>> past dependencies in some way even if this version were available? Am 
>>>>> running Yosemite, 10.10.3.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Charles
>>>> 
>>>> There are some instructions for downgrading a package at the link below.
>>>> 
>>>>    https://finkers.wordpress.com/2012/12/25/downgrading-packages/
>>>> 
>>>> Ben
>>>> ———————————————————————————————————————
>>> 
>>> I just made 4.6.6 available as an option. 
>>> -- 
>>> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
>>> Fink User Liaison
>> 
>> Alex,
>> 
>> What am I missing?
>> 
>> $ sudo apt-get install gnuplot=4.6.6
>> Reading Package Lists... Done
>> Building Dependency Tree... Done
>> E: Version '4.6.6' for 'gnuplot' was not found
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> It hasn’t been built for the binary distribution for a couple of reasons:
> 
> A)  I just added it.  It typically takes a few days for a new package to get 
> built and uploaded.  That’s a general issue.
> B)  Although it probably won’t be available later, either, because the binary 
> distribution  build scripts only build the latest version of a package, to 
> the best of my knowledge. 
> 
> Try “fink install gnuplot-4.6.6”
> 
> --Alex

Thanks. That worked for me.

Ben



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