pybond Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 A CGI script I am using on my website needs to call gnuplot 4.4 to generate a plot. How can I install gnuplot 4.4 on my account? Thanks for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 Can you provide us with information as to what gnuplot 4.4 is? What it does? Where it can be found? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 Can you provide us with information as to what gnuplot 4.4 is? What it does? Where it can be found? http://www.gnuplot.info/ First hit on Google. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 This support request is being escalated to our root admin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pybond Posted August 13, 2010 Author Share Posted August 13, 2010 This support request is being escalated to our root admin. Thanks Wizard. The link above is correct - I need the current release 4.4.0. I didn't realize this would be escalated....here's my info. Username: pybond Domain: pybond.com Thanks very much for all your help. You guys are awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashoat Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 Okay, I've installed the package. Is your script working now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pybond Posted August 13, 2010 Author Share Posted August 13, 2010 Okay, I've installed the package. Is your script working now? Thanks djbob. My script is not working yet. When I try to call gnuplot, it gives me "OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory". The documentation says I shoud just call "gnuplot", but maybe its location is not in my search path. Should I use an absolute address to the gnuplot executable? If so, can you please tell me where it was installled? Thanks for all your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashoat Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 All I know is that I installed it... I don't know where to. Can you search online and try to figure it out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 All I know is that I installed it... I don't know where to. Can you search online and try to figure it out? In ssh: # which gnuplot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pybond Posted August 13, 2010 Author Share Posted August 13, 2010 All I know is that I installed it... I don't know where to. Can you search online and try to figure it out? Sorry to be a pain. Maybe I just don't understand how this works. I've searched everywhere, and still can't locate the executable. The executable should be called gnuplot. According to the install file in the package, it might be in a subdirectory called /gnuplot/bin, but looks like it depends on settings during compile. According to the FAQ section of the website, it says it might be in /usr/local/bin. I have no idea what to do since I cannot view the server's filesystem to find it. I've tried all these combinations and others, and haven't found a path that works yet. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashoat Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 It's certainly not in /usr/bin. Perhaps the package installer made a broken version, but it's not in any of the executable "bin" folders. All I know is that I installed it... I don't know where to. Can you search online and try to figure it out? In ssh: # which gnuplotI'm well aware of which. gnuplot seems to be a library, not an executable... at least in the incarnation we have installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pybond Posted August 13, 2010 Author Share Posted August 13, 2010 OK, here's my last try. I compiled the gnuplot-4.4.0 package locally (./configure then make then make install) and found where the executable should be installed. It should be located at: /usr/local/bin/gnuplot.exe. It works great on my local system, I just type gnuplot, and it launches fine. Is there something I'm missing for a shared hosting environment? Was this gnuplot file installed on the server? Is /usr/local/bin in my path (I don't know how to check it)? How would I access this application from my user account? If these are not easy questions, I'll just give up and re-program using a different package. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 I compiled the gnuplot-4.4.0 package locally...It works great on my local system, I just type gnuplot, and it launches fine. gnuplot seems to be a library, not an executable... at least in the incarnation we have installed. So, it looks like to me (correct me if I'm wrong), but djBob didn't install the same thing you did (besides the fact that you're running Windows and Stevie is running Linux). I have no clue what djbob installed, but it should have been this. Maybe djbob can spread some light on this. I don't know if Stevie has RPM installed, but the RPM for gnuplot is located here, as the official Sourceforge for gnuplot only offers the source. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashoat Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 pybond: What architecture are you working with? If you compiled for el5.x64_86 the upload might work out okay, although there might be some packages that are prerequisites that we don't have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pybond Posted August 15, 2010 Author Share Posted August 15, 2010 pybond: What architecture are you working with? If you compiled for el5.x64_86 the upload might work out okay, although there might be some packages that are prerequisites that we don't have. I tried cross-compiling and compiling on a native linux system with no success. So, I decided to re-program using a php graphing package. Turned out to be much easier and worked like a charm. Thanks to everyone for your help and support - it was greatly appreciated. djbob, you can remove gnuplot from the server if you want...I have no plans to try to use it again. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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