Re: [Gnuplot-info] Not able to install gnuplot succesfully

[Alan C. <ala...@gm...>]

Yeah, don't mix building from source with using debs.  Do a dpkg purge
gnuplot, then make uninstall it.  Unless you really need the latest version
apt-get install gnuplot should work.  But the debs can be a year or more
old by the time they trickle through the stages of testing so it's almost
always a different version.

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 10:33 PM Ethan Merritt <eam...@gm...> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 24 March 2021 18:37:37 PDT Eliezer Richmond wrote:
> > I am trying to install gnuplot-5.4.1 in Linux OS using Ubuntu 64 bit
> 16.04.3
> >
> > I have tried to install gnuplot-5.4.1 without success.  I have read the
> faq
> > "How do I compile gnuplot on my system" and the INSTALL file in the
> > gnuplot-5.4.1 folder.
> >
> > I downloaded gnuplot-5.4.1.tar.gz and unzipped the file into
> > $HOME/gnuplot/gunuplot-5.4.1.
>
> You are mixing up two very different things.
> #1 is building and installing gnuplot from source files.
> #2 is downloading and installing whatever gnuplot
> package your distribution provides.
>
> Pick one or the other.
>
>
> >
> >
> > I then entered the commands
> >
> >                ./configure
> >                make
>
> Good so far.  Assuming that you were happy with the
> output it shows about what optional components are
> being built, you should now have a runnable gnuplot
> sitting in the directory where you built it.
>
> >                sudo apt install gnuplot
>
> But now you go completely wrong.
> "apt install" ignores the thing you just built.
> It goes out and looks for a package named "gnuplot" on
> some Ubuntu web site somewhere.  Then installs it.
> Not the one you built.
>
> >                make check
>
> That is checking the copy you built at step 1.
>
> >                make install
>
> That is trying to insall the copy you just checked,
> but it will probably fail because you don't have the
> right permissions.  Probably you need
>
>                 sudo make install
>
>
> > The 'sudo' command ran returning
> >                Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > gnuplot is already the newest version (4.6.6-3ubuntu0.1).
>
> Now you are back in camp #2. It is reporting on installation
> of the Ubuntu package rather than the newer gnuplot you just built.
> Don't do this.   Do _not_ run "apt".
>
>         hope that helps,
>
>                 Ethan
>
> [snip]
> > I hope you can resolve my problem.
> >
> > Eliezer Richmond
>
>
>
>
>
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