Re: Progress on Mac installation cloning

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Sat, 5 Mar 2016, Jun T. wrote:

>
> 2016/03/05 03:27, Allin Cottrell <cot...@wf...> wrote:
>> I package the program that I work on, gretl, for OS X and the gretl
>> bundle includes gnuplot, so I thought it might be worth making a
>> gnuplot bundle by stripping out all the gretl stuff and revising the
>> metadata.
>
> Great!
>
>> You can find the result at
>> http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/gretl-quartz.pkg
>
> Maybe http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/gnuplot-quartz.pkg ?
>
> ... I've just got your next post which corrects the url.
>
>> * After installation, you can launch gnuplot via its icon in
>> Applications; this opens an instance of Terminal with gnuplot
>> running in it.
>
> This doesn't happen (OS X 10.9.5), but

Hmm. Clicking on the gnuplot icon in Applications should be about
equivalent to executing

/Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/MacOS/gnuplot.sh

from the command line. If you have time, could you try that and see 
what's going wrong? Utilities/Console might also have something 
relevant to say.

>> * If you want to run gnuplot from the command-line directly, the
>> file to execute is
>>
>> /Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot-run.sh
>
> this does works.
> I've tested only aqua, wxt and pngcairo for a few plots, but guess
> other terminals works as well.

Thanks for testing. Good to hear that at least those things work.

Allin Cottrell