Re: Need help/advice with NIST dataplot

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net>]

On 20101217_200557, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net> writes:
> 
> > First, maybe I don't need to compile from source --- Is there a
> > package for this in Debian? What is the package name?
> 
> I see no sign of any existing package either, but it was a good thought
> to check first.
> 
> > GD, LIBPLOT, or READLINE 
> 
> I would recommend installing the following packages, all of which I
> expect should independently improve your experience:
> 
> build-essential (a metapackage for various generally useful development tools)
> libgd2-xpm-dev (development files for a library for producing image files)
> libplot-dev (development files for a graph-drawing library)
> libreadline-dev (development files for an input-line editing library)
> 
> You should then be able to say "yes" for all three.
> 

Thanks, Aaron
It worked. It took a while to get libgd2-xpm-dev installed on my system
because I had previously installed gnuplot. Gnuplot install had automatically
installed libgd2-noxpm and the two are incompatible. Of course, gnuplot 
counld have installed libgd2-xpm, but that is not how the package install
script is written. 
I don't know much at all about writing a successful Debian package, but I
imagine this behavior of the gnuplot package will provide an interesting
extra challenge.

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Paul E Condon           
pecondon@mesanetworks.net