Re: Building gnuplot 4.2 on Ubuntu 6.06 - Cannot find X

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 23 October 2006 02:54 pm, Daniel Farrell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In order to install in Ubuntu I had to manually install automake. I
> now run:
> automake (GNU automake) 1.9.6
>
> My problem was that the ./prepare stage wasn't creating the make
> file.

But you should not need the ./prepare stage in order to build from
the -rc candidate tarball, just as you will not need it to build 
from the final release.   The release source contains a 
pre-built  ./configure script.

> On 23 Oct 2006, at 20:18, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> > On Saturday 21 October 2006 09:48 am, Guy Wiener wrote:
> >> Hi everyone,
> >> I am trying to build gnuplot 4.2 from source on my Ubuntu 6.06
> >> machine. The problem is that when I run "configure" it does not
> >> find the libs to create the X terminal and. Can someone please
> >> tell me what are the correct configuration values to build gnuplot
> >> on Ubuntu with X terminal support?
> >
> > I have not used Ubuntu, but a quick bit of googling turns up
> >  http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1560784
> >
> > from which I take the bottom line to be that you should
> > install the meta-package  xlibs-dev

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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA