Hi all,

So I'm trying to work with some software that needs "plplot" in order to function. I have installed "plplot" several times with different switches and haven't been able to get even the examples to work.

I'm running CentOS 5.9 on a 64-bit build.

The two error messages are:

1. When I run my main code or an example code:

*** PLPLOT ERROR, IMMEDIATE EXIT ***
No device drivers found - please check the environment variable PLPLOT_DRV_DIR

2. When I try to run a check code named "plplot-test.sh":

PLD_psc is defined as OFF. It must be ON (i.e.,
enabled by your cmake configuration and built
properly) before you can use this script with
DEVICE=psc.

I have tried setting the environment variable as follows:

PLPLOT_DRV_DIR=:/home/williams/FSRED/FSRED_SUP1/plplot-5.9.9/drivers

which is the directory with the drivers (I think) and I still get the error messages.

Any ideas?

Well, you could try out the default CentOS 5.x version = plplot-5.7.3 :

# yum install plplot

.. Then I'd guess you can at least run your "plots".


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Hmmm, that might just work. I'll try that out tomorrow and see if that works and post here what the results are, thanks for the tip.

Hmmm,

I've now tried a few different installs of plplot-5.7.3 and nothing seems to want to work. Fortunately, I have found a workaround -- not letting my other program try any plots!

Thanks for the tips!