July 20th, 2010 | 15 Comments
Last Update: 2011-07-11
Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) contains not the newest Gnuplot package, but the old 4.2 version. To install Gnuplot 4.4 under Ubuntu you can download it from Debian squeeze and install it by:
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnuplot/gnuplot-nox_4.4.0-1.1+b1_i386.deb wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnuplot/gnuplot-doc_4.4.0-1.1_all.deb wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnuplot/gnuplot-x11_4.4.0-1.1+b1_i386.deb wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnuplot/gnuplot_4.4.0-1.1_all.deb sudo dpkg -i gnuplot*
It can happen that some features of Gnuplot (for me the readline stuff) do not work as expected. If you experience problems, then you have to compile gnuplot yourself, which is in most cases straight forward. You can download it from sourceforge.
Hi,
Thanks, I was looking for gnuplot with pdf terminal and I could use your blog to install them without spending time on compiling from the source code.
suresh
Hi
I need gnuplot and perhaps Octave on Ubuntu 10.04 . My goal is to plot 2 D sine graphs for math teaching purposes . I like to generate vector based graphics from Gnuplot.
Can you help with some advise
thanks
Mark
Hi Mark,
maybe you will have a look at the Plotting functions and Output terminals pages. There you will find sine graphs and vector graphics output.
doesn’t work for me, can’t find URLs.
Thanks, updated the URLs.
Hi,
I want to do plots as web running scripts.
Please help me
Thanks a lot!! It’s been very easy.
It works, thanks a lot.
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when i tried to install in the last step i got error kindly help me
sharan@sharan:~$ sudo dpkg -i gnuplot*
[sudo] password for sharan:
(Reading database … 188038 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace gnuplot 4.4.0-1.1 (using gnuplot_4.4.0-1.1_all.deb) …
Unpacking replacement gnuplot …
Preparing to replace gnuplot-doc 4.4.0-1.1 (using gnuplot-doc_4.4.0-1.1_all.deb) …
Unpacking replacement gnuplot-doc …
Preparing to replace gnuplot-nox 4.4.0-1.1+b1 (using gnuplot-nox_4.4.0-1.1+b1_i386.deb) …
Unpacking replacement gnuplot-nox …
Preparing to replace gnuplot-x11 4.4.0-1.1+b1 (using gnuplot-x11_4.4.0-1.1+b1_i386.deb) …
Leaving `diversion of /usr/bin/gnuplot to /usr/bin/gnuplot-nox by gnuplot-x11′
Leaving `diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/gnuplot.1.gz to /usr/share/man/man1/gnuplot-nox.1.gz by gnuplot-x11′
Unpacking replacement gnuplot-x11 …
Setting up gnuplot-doc (4.4.0-1.1) …
Setting up gnuplot-nox (4.4.0-1.1+b1) …
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnuplot-x11:
gnuplot-x11 depends on libwxbase2.8-0 (>= 2.8.10.1); however:
Package libwxbase2.8-0 is not installed.
gnuplot-x11 depends on libwxgtk2.8-0 (>= 2.8.10.1); however:
Package libwxgtk2.8-0 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing gnuplot-x11 (–install):
dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnuplot:
gnuplot depends on gnuplot-x11 (>= 4.4.0-1.1); however:
Package gnuplot-x11 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnuplot (–install):
dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for install-info …
Processing triggers for doc-base …
Processing 1 changed doc-base file(s)…
Registering documents with scrollkeeper…
Processing triggers for man-db …
Errors were encountered while processing:
gnuplot-x11
gnuplot
The critical part is this:
Package libwxgtk2.8-0 is not installed
Package libwxgtk2.8-0 is not installed
I would try to install these packages first (for example with synaptic) and then retry to install gnuplot.
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Hi,
I am a PhD student in physics and highly prefer gnuplot in editing my graphs. I try to install gnuplot under Ubuntu but I am confusing in which file I have to download and from which one I have to start installation. I will be grateful for clear information
Raied
You should download all the mentioned files above into the same directory, and in this directory just run the
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