Re: [Gnuplot-info] help: no graph terminal pops up

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

Damian A Scherlis Perel wrote:
>  I have installed gnuplot-4.0.0 following the default
>  procedure (./configure, make, make install) in a Red-Hat
>  Enterprise environment. The installation ends without
>  errors, but when I execute the program under X-windows I get
>  the message "Terminal type set to 'unknown'" preceding
>  the prompt, and no graphics window pops up when I
>  enter "plot ..." (i.e. plot sin(x)) at the command line.

Your installation misses the X11 development packages (headers, 
libraries, ...).  Install them, rerun the gnuplot build starting at 
'configure'.