Re: octave+gnuplot: upgrading problems

[Thomas Weber]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 05:52:38AM -0800, ayk wrote:
> 
> hi,
> 
> my administrator has recently upgraded our octave version to 3.0.3 from
> (probably) 2.?.?
> after the upgrade, i can't seem to be able to use imagesc.
> here is my error message:
> 
> octave:6> imagesc(b) 
> 
> gnuplot> set autoscale fix;
>                        ^
>          line 0: Invalid range
> 
>          Cannot open load file '--version'
>          line 0: (No such file or directory)
> 
> error: you must have gnuplot installed to display graphics; if you have
> gnuplot installed in a non-standard location, see the 'gnuplot_binary'
> function
> 
> we have gnuplot (3.7) installed, and in the usual place:

I would start by upgrading gnuplot (independent of any error, the 3.7
version is from 2002).

> i'd appreciate any help you can give me, and please, keep it simple, i'm
> only a simple user, not the administrator / sudo.

Hmm, it should be possible to compile gnuplot as normal user, as long as
a compiler is installed.

        Thomas