Mac App Store Gnuplot
About the App
The best way to use gnuplot on MacOS is to set it to work with aquaterm as opposed to X11. Here is what I did to do so on both Yosemite and El Capitan MacOS: First remove all pre installation of gnuplot and aquaterm, if any: Brew uninstall gnuplot; Manually delete Aquaterm if you installed it via dmg file previously from your application. Then start XQuartz, make a new xterm and run a script like this in the xterm window running gnuplot: set terminal x11 set title 'Some Math Functions' set xrange -10:10 set yrange -2:2 set zeroaxis plot (x/4).2, sin(x), 1/x Skip the 'set terminal' line if you are using qt as it gets set for you when gnuplot starts. Mac OS X has a desktop app store, unlike Windows. Get a new Mac and you may be excited to open the Mac App Store and install all your favorite software — but you won’t find all your favorite apps in the store. The Mac App Store isn’t like the App Store on Apple’s iPhones and iPads. AquaTerm is a Mac OS X grahics renderer. It allows command line applications written in ObjC, C, FORTRAN, Lisp, Perl or Python to display vector graphics, text and images using a simple API. Adapters for gnuplot, PGPLOT, and PLplot exists as well. Gnuplot is a portable command-line driven interactive datafile (text or binary) and function plotting utility for UNIX, IBM OS/2, MS Windows, DOS, Apple Mac, VMS, Atari and many other platforms. The software is copyrighted but freely distributed (i.e., you don't have to pay for it).
- App name: ledit
- App description: Line editor for interactive commands
- App website: http://pauillac.inria.fr/~ddr/ledit/
Install the App
- Press
Command+Spaceand type Terminal and press enter/return key. - Run in Terminal app:
ruby -e '$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)' < /dev/null 2> /dev/null
and press enter/return key.
If the screen prompts you to enter a password, please enter your Mac's user password to continue. When you type the password, it won't be displayed on screen, but the system would accept it. So just type your password and press ENTER/RETURN key. Then wait for the command to finish. - Run:
brew install ledit
Done! You can now use ledit.