Hi Guys,
Thanks for all your help last year. This gnuplot/octave problem has cropped up
again. Under OSX 10.11, the only gnuplot available is 5.0-3. My saved plots are
again all black. Would it be possible to make gnuplot 4.6.x available again?
All the best,
Charles
> On 2015 Apr 26, , at 4:03 PM, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>> On Apr 26, 2015, at 14:59, Charles C. Kankelborg
>> <kan...@solar.physics.montana.edu> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>
> <snip>
>
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>
> I’ll look at clarifying the example. By the way, fink (and dpkg) will
> attempt to handle downgrades automatically. As long as there isn’t a
> versioned dependency, you can just install the package without any extra
> fuss. So the next time you need to downgrade gnuplot (e.g. after an
> update-all), a simple
>
> fink install gnuplot-4.6.6
>
> will suffice.
>
> --
> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
> Fink User Liaison
>
>
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