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Note that this set of commands provides pdf output with the “pdfcairo” terminal, but not the “pdf” terminal.

brew install gnuplot -with-cairo -with-x11 -with-qt5.

Installing brew from The command given on their homepage has to be run from bash, not tcsh.

[Update 2016 Nov 20: I installed gnuplot on a MacBook Air by No one should have to go through that much hassle to install a simple program. I used to recommend gnuplot to my students all the time, but now that most of them have Macs, I can’t honestly recommend it anymore. Apple has no interest whatsoever in the scientific market (though I see more and more MacBooks at conferences) and the gnuplot developers see nothing wrong in taking 2 hours and 2.7Gbytes to install a 2Mbyte program-they do it all the time. I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for either of these things to happen.

The gnuplot developers could release Macintosh binaries (like they already do for Windows) that install like other Macintosh programs.

This would be the simplest and best solution.

Apple could include gnuplot in their standard Unix utilities.

There are two groups of people who could fix this problem: I just wanted one small graphing program, not two huge ecosystems for developing code! All that for a tiny program that is only about 2Mbytes. It also took up a huge amount of disk space (1.9Gbytes for Xcode, 769Mbytes in /opt). The total time to do the installation was over 2 hours (mostly due to the massive downloads). Installed a different version of gd anyway.

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After about an hour of downloads and building, we were finally ready to install gnuplot.ĭue to lack of documentation for Mac installation on the gnuplot site, we downloaded and installed gd-libgd, which probably was not necessary, because sudo port install gnuplot This triggered a huge pile of downloads and installations, as MacPorts built an entire ecosystem duplicating most of the compilation and building capabilities of Xcode (so why does it need Xcode to get started). cshrc file (and /opt/local/man to the MANPATH), since MacPorts puts its programs in a totally separate place form where everything else gets installed.īecause my son wanted to use the latest features of gnuplot (the pdfcairo output option), we started by using sudo port install cairo

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The download is about 100× bigger than is reasonable-is it full of porn videos or what?Īfter the hour-long download of Xcode, MacPorts installed ok, but to run it we had to add /opt/local/bin and /opt/local/sbin to the path in the. What the h*** is in Xcode that it is so bloated? So far as I can see, Xcode contains a low-quality editor (about as powerful as Textedit), some compilers, and a build system that is about as featureful as make. The Xcode download is almost 2 Gbytes and took an hour. So we had to install a new Xcode, which meant setting up an AppStore account. Downloading it went fine, but it wouldn’t install, because the Xcode that came with the Mac was not suitably configured. Probably the easiest way to install gnuplot is using MacPorts, so first we had to install MacPorts. We had to install it for my son to do his latest physics lab writeup, as the old version we had on the household computer was from the old G5 iMac, and could not run under Lion, which no longer supports emulation of the PowerPC processors.

I sure wish that it came already installed on Macintosh computers, though, as it is huge pain to install. Example of a simple gnuplot graph, click for full-size image.