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#2531 apt install gnuplot on Ubuntu server installs wayland and breaks the console

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Updated: 2022-10-16

Created: 2022-06-28

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My server console now has a desktop login, which doesn't work. Logging in gives a blue screen. I tracked it down to installing gnuplot, which depends and gnuplot-qt ... which ends up depending on xwayland.

I was using gnuplot in a pipeline to draw graphs for a web site, but don't want the gui on the server.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker - 2022-06-28

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker - 2022-06-28

That's an issue not with gnuplot itself, but with

how Ubuntu packaged it, and

which of the various packages you picked for installation
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Ethan Merritt - 2022-10-16

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