Quentin Spencer wrote:
David Bateman wrote:
Abdul Rahman Riza wrote:
Dear Mr. DAvid Bateman,
I am Using ubuntu Feisty Fawn. How to install GNUplot properly?
Rgds
Riza
apt-get update
apt-get install gnuplot
Is there any reason why the Debian octave packages don't have gnuplot as
a mandatory dependency? I guess there may be some situation where you
want octave without X, but maybe just for Ubuntu, which is meant to be
desktop oriented, it would make sense to somehow make octave
automatically install gnuplot.
I imagine it's because octave does work without gnuplot.
Even though Ubuntu is aimed at Desktop users, can you be absolutely sure
that no Desktop user would ever want to use octave without gnuplot? Because
as long as gnuplot is listed as a prereq to octave, no user will have the
option to install octave without gnuplot (which also makes any gnuplot
package problem an octave package problem), without doing some unsavory
things like ignoring package dependencies.
Moreover, it is already listed as a kind-a dependency, i.e. "recommended
package". It's up to the user (or the package management software, esp. like
aptitude and synaptic) to add those recommended packages, which is clearly
visible, say, when you run "apt install octave", or when you look at the
aptitude description of octave.
Andrew