Gnuplot mac os x install#

Gnuplot mac os x install#

At that point, it's as easy as typing 'sudo port install gnuplot' in the Terminal. Once MacPorts has been installed, you'll need to start a new Terminal session.Installation of MacPorts is a breeze once you download their disk image (.dmg) and run their installer (.mpkg), which you can get here. MacPorts allows you to install a number of software packages by simply typing 'install packagename' in the Terminal. MacPorts: Probably one of the coolest things ever, simple as hell, and quite powerful.To be honest, that entry alone has all the information you really need, but it assumes some basic awareness of a few things I hadn't heard about before, so I thought I'd post this information in a more outright manner. I searched on the web for a while for some help which was fruitless until I stumbled upon this little nugget, which was a great relief, as I tend to be sort of lazy when sifting through readme's. However, after downloading, extracting, and messing around in the terminal I found latest build (4.2.4) was having some issues with the makefile, even after configuration.

So, there I was, looking lustfully at the gnuplot demos, so rich in their 3D visualization options. What I found, however, is that 3D scatter plots came out looking pretty terrible, and my start in molecular dynamics simulations required the scatter plots somewhat frequently. That aside, I had long been plotting all my data using the various functions in Matlab, and for the most part, I was very happy with the results (see here for reference).

While this would have been a serious anomaly a couple years ago, it seems more and more common these days, especially when working with other Unix/Linux machines. Not to many people's surprise anymore, I'm both an engineer and a Mac user.