gnuplot woes

Tue Apr 8 12:21:30 EDT 2008

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Labitt, Bruce <labittb1 at tycoelectronics.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install gnuplot on a Centos box.  I tried installing via
> compilation and have run into a couple of issues.
>
> Compilation failed because of no numeric python package.  So I thought,

What?  Can you disable python support when you ./configure?
gnuplot predates python.  Heck, I used it on DOS in 1991

>
> that is easy - downloaded that and tried the install.  It complained
> about BLAS and LAPACK libs.  Sooo, off to their respective websites.
>
> I'm not sure what to do here, and in what order.  I guess I need a BLAS
> optimized lib for my cpu.  It is not clear to me if I install BLAS or
> LAPACK first.  RTFM has not revealed much yet.  I'm sure my google-fu
> needs some rebuilding...
>
> Anyone do this before and have some hints?
>
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