Thanks Ben & Alex. I must confess the example at the finkers blog was unclear
to me (I don't normally use apt-get or binaries), but in the end all I did was
% fink remove -r gnuplot
% fink install gnuplot-4.6.6
% fink install octave
Before the above fix, the octave example below would save a completely black
plot (though it looked fine on screen).
octave:1> theta = 0:0.1:4*pi;
octave:2> plot(theta,sin(theta))
octave:3> print("test.pdf",'-dpdf')
After downgrading gnuplot to 4.6.6, octave & gnuplot cooperate as they should.
All the best,
Charles
> On 2015 Apr 26, , at 9:28 AM, Ben Abbott <bpabb...@mac.com> wrote:
>
>
>> 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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