From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Jun 11 09:15:12 2003 Subject: Re: Limited number of figures? From: Rafael Laboissiere To: Paul Kienzle Cc: Steven D Ratts , help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu, PLplot development mailing list Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 09:06:39 -0500 * Paul Kienzle [2003-06-10 19:52]: > Steven D Ratts wrote: > > Are there any alternatives to gnuplot (if that is the issue) that I might > > be able to use, and if there are, can I access them via octave's plot > > command? > > There is a plplot command to replace gnuplot with plplot in octave. I have > used it in the past, but the latest octave_plplot package on Debian > segfaulted when I tried it recently. I don't know yet if this is an octave > problem, a plplot problem, or a Debian problem. Which version of Debian and the plplot packages are you using? The octave-plplot package 5.2.1-13 in Debian sid (unstable) seems to be working fine. If you are using Debian sarge (testing), there is an apt-getable repository at: http://plplot.sourceforge.net/resources/ However, the octave-plplot package there does not work with otctave-2.1.36 (the current sarge version), because of libstdc++ incompatibilites. As soon as octave2.1_2.1.49 will reach sarge, I will upload a new set of PLplot packages to the above repository. At any rate, using the drop-in PLplot replacement in Debian should be as simple as: $ apt-get install octave-plplot $ octave octave:1> toggle_plplot_use Use PLplot: on octave:2> plot (randn (10, 1)) -- Rafael ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------