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

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com>]

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
> 

I created a chroot for sid which currently carries the same versions of
maxima (5.13.0-3.1), gnuplot (4.2.2-1). I am able to reproduce this problem
in that chroot. I think it is a bug in maxima. Please consider reporting
it.

> Should maxima depend on gnuplot-x11 ?

Yes, I think maxima should just depend on gnuplot-x11 (unless upstream has
changed their requirements in the latest versions.

hth
raju
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