Re: please help

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On 07/nov/07, at 16:54, Enrico Bedogni wrote:

> hi
>
> i'd like to install octave and gnuplot on my mac but i found so  
> many problems!!
> i'm not very good with this thing but i'd like to improve.
> i found some information here http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl? 
> OctaveForMac but
> for the moment i can't plot anything!! even if i can do some  
> operetion.
>
> this is what is written on the terminal opening gnuplot:
>
> Last login: Wed Nov  7 17:27:49 on console
> Welcome to Darwin!
> exec '/Applications/GnuPlot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot'
> :~ bedo$ exec '/Applications/GnuPlot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/ 
> gnuplot'
> dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.4.dylib
>   Referenced from: /Applications/GnuPlot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/ 
> gnuplot-4.2.2
>   Reason: image not found
> /Applications/GnuPlot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot: line  
> 71:   265 Trace/BPT trap          GNUPLOT_HOME=${GNUPLOT_HOME} PATH= 
> ${PATH} DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH} DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH=$ 
> {DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH} HOME=${HOME} GNUHELP=${GNUHELP}  
> GNUPLOT_PS_DIR=${GNUPLOT_PS_DIR} DISPLAY=${DISPLAY}  
> GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR=${GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR} "${ROOT}/bin/ 
> gnuplot-4.2.2" "$@"
> [Processo completato]
>
> is itso bad?
>
>
> please help me!!

What version of OSX do you have?
It seems you are missing X11,
this is included on the installation
CD's since OSX 10.3 (Panther)
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