Gnuplot 4 installation without X11 Terminal :(

[Hani Andreas Ibrahim]

Hello,

I tried to install/compile Gnuplot 4 to my Linux (SuSE 9.1, Kernel 2.6).
All seems to be ok. I can start gnuplot but I can not choose X11
Terminal for graphic output on the screen. Output to postcript e.g. is
not a problem.

If I start gnuplot I get the startup-message: "Terminal type set to
'unknown'" instead of "Terminal type set to X11" as expected and I can't
set the X11 Term manually. Command "set terminal" output don't contains X11!

I read the install file carefully and the X11 terminal support should be
installed by default.

I read the output of ./configure, make and make install carefully too. I
couldn't see any problems except for:

---------------8<-------------------
"/usr/local/src/gnuplot-4.0.0/missing: line 52: automake-1.7: command
not found

WARNING: `automake-1.7' is missing on your system. You should only need
it if you modified `Makefile.am', `acinclude.m4' or `configure.in'. You
might want to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages. Grab them from
any GNU archive site."
--------------->8-------------------

I have automake-1.8 installed. Could this cause the problem? And where
can I get 1.7? Could I am not familiar in C programming on Un*x machines.

Can anybody help me? Thanks in advance.

Hani

PS: I uninstalled Gnuplot 3.7 package (rpm-package) before I compiled 4.0.

[Ethan Merritt]

In article <41f45039$0$808$9b4e...@newsread2.arcor-online.net>,

Hani Andreas Ibrahim <hi...@gmx.de> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I tried to install/compile Gnuplot 4 to my Linux (SuSE 9.1, Kernel 2.6).
>All seems to be ok. I can start gnuplot but I can not choose X11
>Terminal for graphic output on the screen. Output to postcript e.g. is
>not a problem.
>
>If I start gnuplot I get the startup-message: "Terminal type set to
>'unknown'" instead of "Terminal type set to X11" as expected and I can't
>set the X11 Term manually. Command "set terminal" output don't contains X11!
>

>I read the output of ./configure, make and make install carefully too.

You will probably find the relevant messages in config.log

The problem iis probably that you do not have the "development" packages
for X11 installed. I don't know what the SuSE packages names are
exactly, but something like
xorg-x11-devel-6.8.1-15.4.i586.rpm

> I couldn't see any problems except for:
>
>---------------8<-------------------
>"/usr/local/src/gnuplot-4.0.0/missing: line 52: automake-1.7: command
>not found
>

>I have automake-1.8 installed. Could this cause the problem?

Automake 1.8.3 works fine for me, so I doubt it is a version problem.
But the error message is not usual.
I am not sure what would cause this message.

--
Ethan A Merritt

[Hani Andreas Ibrahim]

Ethan Merritt schrieb:

> In article <41f45039$0$808$9b4e...@newsread2.arcor-online.net>,
> Hani Andreas Ibrahim <hi...@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I tried to install/compile Gnuplot 4 to my Linux (SuSE 9.1, Kernel 2.6).
>>All seems to be ok. I can start gnuplot but I can not choose X11
>>Terminal for graphic output on the screen. Output to postcript e.g. is
>>not a problem.
>>
>>If I start gnuplot I get the startup-message: "Terminal type set to
>>'unknown'" instead of "Terminal type set to X11" as expected and I can't
>>set the X11 Term manually. Command "set terminal" output don't contains X11!
>>
>>I read the output of ./configure, make and make install carefully too.
>
>
> You will probably find the relevant messages in config.log
>
> The problem iis probably that you do not have the "development" packages
> for X11 installed. I don't know what the SuSE packages names are
> exactly, but something like
> xorg-x11-devel-6.8.1-15.4.i586.rpm

I am a fool. Of course the development packages. Thanks for prompt
assistance. It works correctly now.

The name of the X11 SuSE package is "xfree86-devel".

Hani