Installing Gnuplot 5.0 on Ubuntu
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Installing Gnuplot 5.0 on Ubuntu
I have been trying to install Gnuplot 5.0 from source on Ubuntu.
I followed the procedure given in the blog:
Installing gnuplot from source
I used the following commands:
tar xzf gnuplot-5.0.0.tar.gz
mkdir build
cd build
../gnuplot-5.0.0/configure --with-readline=gnu
make
Everything until the configure command works fine. However, I end up getting the following error when I run the make command:
In file included from ../../gnuplot-5.0.0/src/qtterminal/QtGnuplotWindow.cpp:187:0:
./ui_QtGnuplotSettings.h:13:25: fatal error: QtGui/QAction: No such file or directory
#include <QtGui/QAction>
Could someone guide on how to fix this issue? If there is an alternative easier way to install gnuplot 5.0.0. that would be helpful as well.
qtbase5-dev
qt
Yes. I did install qtbase5-dev, qtdeclarative5-dev and libqt5svg5-dev. There are a bunch of qt4 libraries already installed as well, which I did not remove.
– Ravi
Apr 8 '15 at 22:09
QtGui/QAction means qt4 (QtWidget/QAction in qt5), first install all qt4 dev packages, the recompile (or re-configure too)
– gengisdave
Apr 8 '15 at 23:03
Is there a list of all the qt4 dev packages available?
– Ravi
Apr 8 '15 at 23:06
I'm not sure which dev packages are all required to build gnuplot with qt, but you can use
./configure --with-qt=no to build without the qt terminal. You'll still have wxt as interactive terminal.– Christoph
Apr 9 '15 at 6:36
./configure --with-qt=no
wxt
2 Answers
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Here's a compilation of the various library-dev packages necessary for gnuplot in ubuntu. Additional -dev packages that are installed automatically with the ones named are not listed or in (parentheses).
For the old interactive x11terminal
x11
libx11-dev
For the pdfcairo, pngcairo, epscairo terminals
pdfcairo
pngcairo
epscairo
libcairo2-dev
libpango1-dev
additionally for the interactive wxt terminal (try ./configure --with-wx-single-threaded in case of problems (e.g. make check crashes). If it doesn't compile with complaints about "XInitThreads", try TERMLIBS="-lX11" ./configure.)
wxt
./configure --with-wx-single-threaded
make check
TERMLIBS="-lX11" ./configure
libwxgtk2.8-dev or libwxgtk3.0-dev
libgtk2.0-dev
For the libgd-based png, gif, jpeg terminals
png
gif
jpeg
libgd-dev
(libxpm-dev)
(libjpeg-turbo8-dev)
(libtiff5-dev)
For the interactive qt terminal (./configure --with-qt=qt5)
qt
./configure --with-qt=qt5
qtbase5-dev
libqt5svg5-dev
alternatively for qt4 (./configure --with-qt=qt4)
./configure --with-qt=qt4
libqt4-dev
For the lua terminal
lua
liblua5.2-dev (also read ./INSTALL)
For the text-mode caca terminal (./configure --with-caca)
caca
./configure --with-caca
libcaca-dev
To use external libreadline instead of gnuplots builtin replacement (recommended)
libreadline-dev
To have the mathematical functions provided by the cerf library (can't hurt)
libcerf-dev
The list is not final (i don't have a spare system to try out all the dependencies at the moment). Feel free to add, update and correct!
Your answer was very helpful. I just want to add that I also needed to
sudo apt-get install qttools5-dev-tools in addition to qtbase5-dev and libqt5svg5-dev to get qt5 terminal in gnuplot. Without this, a linking error /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/bin/lrelease: No such file or directory occurs. I have edited your answer to reflect this.– Allan
Oct 14 '15 at 8:43
sudo apt-get install qttools5-dev-tools
qtbase5-dev
libqt5svg5-dev
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/bin/lrelease: No such file or directory
@Allan: I can't confirm this with ubuntu 15.04 or .10, What version are you using?
– Karl
Oct 20 '15 at 21:33
Well, not exactly Ubuntu, but Linux Mint 17.2.
– Allan
Oct 22 '15 at 12:11
They can easily have a different packaging. Split from debian ten years ago.
– Karl
Oct 23 '15 at 2:44
Any special options necessary to the configure script, e.g.
--psdir=XYZ? I'm asking because with the version I build from scratch I get some weird errors sometimes about a postscript prologue file and such. I wonder what the right values are here.– con-f-use
May 25 '16 at 19:07
--psdir=XYZ
I simply followed the instructions in the file INSTALL and it worked perfectly:
$ tar xzf gnuplot-5.0.1.tar.gz
$ cd gnuplot-5.0.1
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
After doing this, when I call gnuplot anywhere, the result is
$ gnuplot
G N U P L O T
Version 5.0 patchlevel 1 last modified 2015-06-07
Copyright (C) 1986-1993, 1998, 2004, 2007-2015
Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley and many others
gnuplot home: http://www.gnuplot.info
faq, bugs, etc: type "help FAQ"
immediate help: type "help" (plot window: hit 'h')
That's very nice for you (although you likely now have a gnuplot with only one useful terminal, postscript), but doesn't help with the problem.
– Karl
Jul 31 '15 at 13:57
I am using Ubuntu 15.04, and had previously installed gnuplot 4.6 from the repository. I instaled gnuplot 5.01 without unistalling gnuplot 4.6. Maybe, for that reason, it installed all necessary packages. Anyway, I have all terminals working and if I don't set any terminal, it opens a window and shows the graphic in a x11 terminal.
– bmello
Aug 4 '15 at 17:55
You most certainly don't have the wxt or qt terminal, or any of the *cairo terminals. Unless you previously installed the qt, cairo and pango dev-packages for something else. There is no automatism. The x11 terminal still works, but I don't think you'll want it back once you've seen the alternatives. Ubuntu has a package gnuplot5 if you want to try.
– Karl
Aug 4 '15 at 20:30
This being a top hit for "install gnuplot" it was useful to me to have the basics summarized here, together with Karl's last comment.
– PatrickT
May 21 '16 at 18:14
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Did you install
qtbase5-dev? Or any otherqtlibrary component?– Willem Van Onsem
Apr 8 '15 at 22:03