#Gnuplot install mac with aquaterm for mac os x

Users/username/bin must be added to the path, so that Gnuplot works form everywhere, e.g. Just run the following command in your terminal ln -s /Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot /Users/username/bin/gnuplot You might also want to have gnuplot available in your usual terminal session. need the -with-readinebsd option when configuring gnuplot, and aquaterm is Mac only. Replace both lines do script (“exec ‘$/bin/gnuplot'”). For the graphical data analysis tools youll also need gnuplot.Browse to Contents/Resources and edit “script” with your favorite text editor.Right click on Gnuplot.app and choose “Show Package Contents”.So we need to hack Gnuplot.app so that X11 (which is also more powerful) becomes the default terminal. But unfortunately the default aquaterm terminal doesn’t work for me always (on one Mac it did, on another it didn’t – maybe Aquaterm shouldn’t be installed before). Usually you just open Gnuplot.app and start plotting. Alternatively you could directly download the gnuplot-4.2.5-i386.dmg from here.Open gnuplot-4.2.5-i386.dmg and copy Gnuplot.app to your Applications folder (or anywhere else).Open the downloaded dmg file and browse to the Extras folder.

#Gnuplot install mac with aquaterm for mac os x

Download Octave for Mac OS X from the Octaveforge homepage (latest version at time of writing was 3.2.2).There is some information on the web about running Gnuplot on Mac OS X already (, ) and there is also and but there is IMO an easier way (though it still needs some work): there is a Gnuplot installer provided by Octave! Here are the instructions: It’s actually quite easy to configure and compile Gnuplot (i.e./configure make make install), but some terminals are not built due to missing dependencies and this makes Gnuplot less powerful. There are some possibilities to install Gnuplot on Mac OS X, none of them is “official”, since the Gnuplot project doesn’t provide binaries for Mac OS X. I provide another instructions to install Gnuplot 4.4.0 compiling it yourself on Mac OS X.