Gnuplot Visualization Tool

This page contains instructions where to download a statically linked binary distribution of gnuplot 4.0.0 for i686-Linux and how to install it.
For more information about gnuplot please refer to the Cactus VizTools Page for Gnuplot.

Downloading and installing gnuplot 4.0.0

  1. Get the compressed tarball of gnuplot 4.0.0 for i686-Linux.

  2. Unpack it in your standard installation directory for software packages (eg. /usr/local/apps/).
    This will put a binary executable gnuplot into $GNUPLOT_DIR/bin/ and the online

    Link this executable into your $PATH (eg. into /usr/local/bin/) so that it is found by the shell.

    IMPORTANT: Make sure that the new gnuplot executables appear in your $PATH before any old installation of gnuplot. Best is to rename old executables or just to uninstall the old gnuplot package.

  3. For screen plots, gnuplot needs an X11 driver which is expected to be found in $GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR. Set this environment variable to <your_gnuplot_install_dir>/libexec/gnuplot/4.0/.

  4. The environment variable $GNUHELP should be set to <your_gnuplot_install_dir>/share/gnuplot/4.0/gnuplot.gih so that online help is available within gnuplot.

This Linux binary distribution is maintained by Thomas Radke.