#61 set terminal ???
Reply-To: rwatkins@dssolutions.com
I downloaded and installed gnuplot 4.2 patchlevel 0 onto a Solaris 10 X86 box. When I start gnuplot, I get an error message:
Terminal type set to 'x11'
gnuplot>
gnuplot: unable to open display ''
gnuplot: X11 aborted.
I then try to set the terminal type to PNG to support graphing to a file, and I get the following message:
gnuplot> set terminal png
^
unknown or ambiguous terminal type; type just 'set terminal' for a list
I get the same error for "jpg", "gif". When I enter 'set terminal', the list does not contain any usable format that I am familiar with.
I need to be able to plot to a file so that I can email graphs to users.
My system has libpng loaded in /usr/lib so im not sure why it's not allowing me to specify PNG as a terminal type. I have this working on a Sun Sparc Solaris 10 box without problem. This only happens on the X86 box.
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The problems are quite probably the same in both cases: the box in question doesn't have all the necessary files installed to *build* programs using X11, PNG, JPG or others. A library in /usr/lib isn't enough.
For the full story, inspect the config.log file generated when you ran "configure". If you can't grok it, attach it to this report.