[Gretl-users] Re: New package "multiplot"
Am 23.06.2020 um 08:59 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
On Tue, 23 Jun 2020, Artur Tarassow wrote:
>> Looks like it. I'll see if I can build gnuplot 5.2.8 (December 2019)
>> for our Windows packages.
> Thank you, Allin, for having a look at it.
In the meantime, I suggest that windows users download the new gnuplot
version from sourceforge and use that. Can anyone on windows provide
detailed instructions on how to do so? I don't have a windows machine
handy here, sorry.
Not sure what you mean by "from sourceforge", but I've just verified
that replacing the wgnuplot.exe in the snapshot installation directory
indeed fixes the problem. Here's a step-by-step guide for Windows users
- this should work also for gretl 2020b and perhaps even older versions:
1. Download http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/winbuild/gp524w64.tar.gz
Remarks: Despite the file name AFAICS this contains gnuplot 5.2.6, not
5.2.4, which is good. If you run 32bit Windows you must download
gp524w32.tar.gz instead. (Haven't tested the latter.) Perhaps those
files will be renamed in the future to ...526... or ...528...
2. unpack/extract that archive (first to tar, then to a new folder); on
Windows I use 7zip for that.
3. Copy the contained files wgnuplot.exe, wgnuplot.mnu, wgnuplot.chm to
the place where gretl is installed. On a default install this should be
"C:\Program Files\gretl". This will overwrite the existing versions of
those files; you need admin access rights to do that. Perhaps you want
to make a backup of the old file versions, just in case.
This should hopefully be it. It's probably a good idea to restart gretl.
cheers
sven