Many thanks for the help. William's suggestion that it is better
using an independently-installed gnuplot did the trick - adding
gnuplotpy via sage -i gnuplotpy-1.7.p3 once gnuplot was
up and running from the command line worked.

If anyone wants to investigate why sage -i gnuplot-4.0.0
didn't work I'd be happy to send more of the log file (but
please tell me how you'd like this to be done!). However
as this package is experimental I can see this would be low
priority.

Patrick.


On Feb 8, 8:37 am, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:21 AM, mabshoff
>
>
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Feb 8, 12:13 am, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > <SNIP>
>
> >> 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 $@
> >> -------------
>
> > Before Nick Alexander has an aneurysm :) - this should be
>
> > --------
> > #!/bin/sh
> > path/to/gnuplot "$@"
> > --------
>
> Oh crap.  Somebody should open a trac ticket to fix my brain!!  And
> make it a blocker.
>
> William

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