Re: maxima 5.13 in lenny requires gnuplot-x11 to plot?

[Alexandru Cardaniuc <cardaniuc@gmail.com>]

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com> writes:

> Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote:
>
>> Hi All!
>> 
>> I installed maxima. It depends on gnuplot-nox, which is installed
>> too. When I try to plot something in maxima, I get:
>> 
>> (%i1) plot2d (exp(-u)*sin(u),[u,0,2*%pi]);
>> 
>> (%o1)
>> 
>> (%i2) Expected X11
>> 
>> driver: /usr/lib/gnuplot/gnuplot_x11 Exec failed: No such file or
>> 
>> directory See 'help x11' for more details Expected X11 driver:
>> 
>> /usr/lib/gnuplot/gnuplot_x11 Exec failed: No such file or directory
>> 
>> See 'help x11' for more details
>
> Maxima seems to work fine without gnuplot-x11 on Etch. The function is
> plotted in the "dumb" terminal. Here are the packages I have.
>
> $dpkg -l gnuplot\* maxima\* pn gnuplot <none> (no description
> available) pn gnuplot-doc <none> (no description available) ii
> gnuplot-nox 4.0.0-5 A command-line driven interactive plotting pn
> gnuplot-x11 <none> (no description available) ii maxima 5.10.0-6 A
> computer algebra system -- base system ii maxima-doc 5.10.0-6 A
> computer algebra system -- documentation ii maxima-share 5.10.0-6 A
> computer algebra system -- extra code

Strange. Is here anybody else who uses lenny and maxima plots with
gnuplot-nox ?

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