Peter: Try setting the DISPLAY variable before invoking gnuplot (if you are running it in the terminal).
-Jeff On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Peter Lichtner wrote: > > I have XFree 86 4.2.0.1 installed from XonX. I did not install it from > fink because I only have a slow modem connection at home. > ...Peter > > > On Saturday, Nov 2, 2002, at 14:54 America/Denver, Derek Homeier wrote: > > > On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 04:19 PM, Peter Lichtner wrote: > > > >> noticed that my PowerBook has the same problem---but it is using the > >> lastest version of fink and gnuplot (running MacOSX 10.2.1) > >> > >> [localhost:~] peterlichtner% fink --version > >> Package manager version: 0.11.0 > >> Distribution version: 0.4.9.cvs > >> > >> and gnuplot 3.8h.0-8. > >> > >> I get: > >> > >> gnuplot> set term x11 > >> ^ > >> unknown or ambiguous terminal type; type just 'set terminal' > >> for a list > >> > > Using the exact same version of gnuplot here, and it even defaults to > > terminal x11 when only DISPLAY is set (i.e. directly calling > > 'gnuplotx' and not having GNUTERM set). > > Which xfree86 packages did you have installed when building gnuplot -- > > could it be that some development headers are now missing from > > xfree86-base-shlibs that would be needed to compile x11 support in? I > > noticed xfree86 is actually not required for the build, though it > > would normally be safe to assume anyone who wants to use in in Xwindow > > would have xfree86 installed at compile time. Maybe the splitoff of > > xfree86-base-shlibs has caused some issues here. > > > > Derek > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm > Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > > -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 NOAA/OAR/CDC R/CDC1 FAX : (303)497-6449 325 Broadway Web : http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/~jsw Boulder, CO, USA 80305-3328 Office: Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-124 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
