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1. #Install aquaterm install#
2. #Install aquaterm full#
3. #Install aquaterm Offline#
4. #Install aquaterm mac#

#Install aquaterm install#

brew install gnuplot -with-aquaterm -with-qt4.Then install gnuplot using follwing command:.Now install aqua term using brew command:.If you installed Aquaterm using brew then use brew uninstall aquaterm.īottomline: You shouldn't have any installation of gnuplot or aquaterm on your system.Manually delete Aquaterm if you installed it via dmg file previously from your application.First remove all pre installation of gnuplot and aquaterm, if any:.Here is what I did to do so on both Yosemite and El Capitan MacOS: The best way to use gnuplot on MacOS is to set it to work with aquaterm as opposed to X11. The warning message keeps appearing infinitely if I don't close the terminal. Gnuplot returns these messages : Could not start gnuplot_qt with path "/usr/local/libexec/gnuplot/5.0/gnuplot_qt"Ĭould not start gnuplot_qt with path "/usr/local/libexec/gnuplot/5.0/gnuplot_qt"Ĭould not connect to gnuplot_qt "". So I opened a new terminal shell and typed gnuplot to begin using it (the terminal is automatically set to qt). I could actually visualize the plots and I thought "great, it works". The make check command outputs a lot of lines in the shell before testing many gnuplot scripts. With these commands, gnuplot is located in /usr/local/bin/. I followed the installation instructions found in INSTALL.gnu file of the tarball: I ran the configure file and typed make, make check, make install, and make clean. I also installed the Command Line Tools on my OS X 10.7.5 so that I have gcc and make in the /usr/bin folder. With this, you can also compare the different rendering apps and discover which one you like more.I downloaded the source files for gnuplot 5.0.1 (gnuplot-5.0.1.tar.gz) from the source forge page. If you are running Octave and wish to change the GNUTERM there, you can do so with the setenv function, like so. You can read more about setting environment variables on StackOverflow. Set GNUTERM to x11 when you want to do your graphing in X11 and set GNUTERM to aqua when you want to do your graphing in AquaTerm. The way you control this is through the environment variable, GNUTERM. If you have installed the X11 variant, you can also choose to do the rendering from within X11.

#Install aquaterm mac#

I like AquaTerm because the graphs look really smooth and nice, like you would expect on a Mac :) AquaTerm is basically a vector renderer which Octave can use to plot its graphs. When you install Octave via MacPorts, AquaTerm also gets installed.

#Install aquaterm full#

To get a full list, run: port variants octave-devel

#Install aquaterm Offline#

This ensures that both of those are in sync.įeel free to add other variants if you like, like X11 support or offline documentation.

I added the gcc45 variant because one of the dependencies, atlas, needs gcc45 to compile. To install Octave, run the following from the terminal: sudo port install octave-devel +gcc45Īnd then wait.as there are a lot of things that need being compiled. With octave, I found the scaling of elements on the graph to be different sizes and that bugged me. In my brief testing with the two, the biggest difference for me was that the graphs plotted in octave-devel looked more like their OS counterparts. That being said, it's still pretty easy to get Octave up and running in both Snow Leopard and Lion.Īt the time of this post, here's two version of Octave to choose from: octave (version 3.2.4) and octave-devel (version 3.4.3). Most of the time, installing things with MacPorts is pretty easy however, I have found that GNU Octave can be a little tricky. Installing Octave on OSX with MacPorts Sunday, November 6, 2011