[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#461558: octave fails to invoke gnuplot

[Imranullah Syed]

Hello,

Quoting Folkert van Heusden <folkert at vanheusden.com>:

> When trying to plot a graph from octave, it fails to do so with all
> kinds of gnuplot errors:
> gnuplot> set terminal aqua 1 enhanced
>                       ^
>          line 0: unknown or ambiguous terminal type; type just 'set   
> terminal' for a list
...
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Why would gnulot be trying to use the 'aqua' terminal? It is  
non-existent on non-apple builds of gnuplot. *That* is your problem.  
Your script works fine(produces a plot) even in an old build of 2.9.17  
I have on my current machine.

If you have a ~/.gnuplot file, that is the first place to look. The  
next place I would suggest is ~/.octaverc and any project specific  
ones you might have($PWD/.octave)

Regards,
Imran