Bug#659701: texlive-pictures: pgfplots can't use gnuplot: set terminal table -> unknown or ambiguous terminal

["Neal H. Walfield" <neal@walfield.org>]

reassign pgf
thanks

At Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:13:42 +0100,
Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> > Ah, I didn't realize that it had to be before the documentclass.
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Here is the diff:
> > 
> Bamm. Yes, I should have noticed that earlier: the pgf package is
> maintained separately in Debian. Please install the Debian package
> pgf to get the fix.
> 
> hille@sid:~ $ dpkg -l pgf
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> |Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name           Version        Description
> +++-==============-==============-============================================
> ii  pgf            2.10-1         TeX Portable Graphic Format

This fixes the problem.  I had 2.00-1 installed, which is in stable,
along with the incompatible version of gnuplot.

Perhaps pgf should change make the use of "set table" and "set
terminal table" dependent on the version of gnuplot, e.g.:

if (substr(system("gnuplot --version"), strlen ("gnuplot "), 100) >=4.4) set table; else set terminal table;

Thanks,

Neal