On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:01 AM, mabshoff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Feb 7, 11:53 pm, mhampton <[email protected]> wrote: >> I thought sage-support might be a better spot for this. I helped >> Patrick install gnuplot once, but he is trying again because it was >> slightly unhappy about some aqua support issue that he thinks he has >> fixed. He is using gnuplot for some legacy-code reasons. > > The one error log excerpt below is useless. Without install.log there > is nothing one can do. > > We should really change the error message, especially the word > "relevant" in > > "explaining the problem and send the relevant part of" > > since more and more new Sage users have little understanding what part > of the log is required to debug the problem. We also need to stop > asking people to send the log to the list since I am not looking > forward to the next person sending out a multi MB uncompressed > install.log :p > > Overall it looks like some kind of problem related to X, but I would > not be surprised if macports and/or Fink is involved here.
I hope the following is helpful. The only reason for an end user to install the gnuplot package is of they can't install it any other way. Sage doesn't do any binary linking at all to gnuplot. As long as a gnuplot command is installed and in their path, things should work. The user does have some gnuplot installed, evidently, but it's probably not setup to run by typing "gnuplot" in Terminal. They probably need to make a script called "gnuplot" in their PATH and put something like this in it: -------------- #!/bin/sh path/to/gnuplot $@ ------------- where /path/to/gnuplot is the path to their gnuplot install. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
