Re: [Plplot-general] PLPlot install issue

[Alan W. I. <ai...@us...>]

On 2003-11-11 01:04-0500 David Strang wrote:

> I downloaded the rpm for Redhat (I heard somewhere that Mandrake is based
> upon Radhat), but
> the package manager reports the rpm has a bad signature. Is the signature
> necessary? I have the Redhat 9.0
> package and it has octave 2.1-40 and probably the libblas, liblapack,
> libreadline libraries that are needed. Is
> there any way to install under Mandrake 9.1?

One interpretation of your remarks above is there is an rpm built for RH
9.0, but that is not the case; the last rpm we distributed was for
PLplot-5.2.0 for RH 7.3 (i.e., an outdated version of PLplot on an outdated
version of RedHat).  (See
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2915 for our official
file releases.) The reason that our rpm's are poorly supported is I don't
have access to newer rpm-based distributions, and no other PLplot developer
has shown interest in building rpm's.

Given our poor support for rpm's I suggest you continue to try to make the
tarball approach work.

I understand that you applied one fix to get "make" to work with no further
problems for the PLplot-5.2.1 tarball.

After that, you merely have to

make install

cp -a $prefix/lib/plplot5.2.1/examples /tmp

(where $prefix is whatever you specified in the configure step [or default
/usr/local])

cd /tmp/examples/c
make
./x01c

etc.

If you cannot get x01c to build and execute using the above method, let us
know, and we will work through any further problems.

Alan
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