Installing gnuplot on Mavericks

Question

I am trying to reinstall gnuplot after the upgrade to Mavericks (since it kept throwing errors while trying to launch it).

I am doing this with homebrew, since the system told me to uninstall Macports/fink

brew install gnuplot

and it gets stuck during the "make"

I tried to follow some instructions found around the net like doing this before install:

sudo chmod 777 /usr/local/include/
sudo chmod 777 /usr/local/lib

but the result is always :

==> Installing dependencies for gnuplot: pkg-config, readline, libpng, jpeg, gd, lua
==> Installing gnuplot dependency: pkg-config
==> Downloading http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.28.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/pkg-config-0.28.tar.gz
==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/pkg-config/0.28 --disable-host-tool --with-internal-glib --with-pc-path=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/share/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig
==> make

Any advice?

Answer 1

I had the same issue today, it hangs because the LaTeX terminal requires the (obsolete) subfigure package. The easiest fix is to install this LaTeX package in your texmf directory. For MacTeX this is ~/Library/texmf. Afterwards you can install gnuplot with brew.

In steps:

• Download: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/obsolete/macros/latex/contrib/subfigure
• Put the contents in ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex (remember ~/Library is hidden, and the texmf directory must be created if it doesn't exist)
• Run latex subfigure.ins in that folder
• Run brew install gnuplot

Answer 2

I found it quite tedious to install gnuplot and make it talk to latex on Mac OS X. If you don't mind an older version of gnuplot, you can find an installer inside an extra subdirectory of the gnu-octave program at sourceforge. But this convenient installer is no longer packaged with gnu-octave. If you want the latest version of gnuplot, I have detailed the steps I followed to make it work here (my answer is the one that expands on Alan Munn's great answer):

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/71160/how-to-use-gnu-plot-to-plot-diagrams-in-texshop?lq=1

Answer 3

Try running brew install -v to get the build output.