> On Apr 26, 2015, at 11:28 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

Hi Alex,

I noticed that gnuplot 4.7 has been released.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/files/gnuplot/4.6.7/

Will Fink’s gnuplot 4.x be updated?

Ben



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