gnuplot-mode doesn't work on emacs22

[Daniel Cordeiro]

Binary package hint: gnuplot-mode

When gnuplot-mode is installed, you can find in the output of the installation:
install/gnuplot-mode: Ignoring emacsen flavor emacs22.

When I try to use it in emacs (M-x gnuplot-mode), it says:
Cannot open load file: gnuplot

1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'cat /etc/lsb-release' or System -> About Ubuntu.
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=gutsy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 7.10"

2) The version of the package you are using, via 'dpkg -l PKGNAME | cat' or by checking in Synaptic.

$ dpkg -l gnuplot-mode
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Nome Versão Descrição
ii gnuplot-mode 1:0.6.0-2.1 Yet another Gnuplot mode for Emacs

$ dpkg -l emacs22-common
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Nome Versão Descrição
ii emacs22-common 22.1-0ubuntu5.1 The GNU Emacs editor's common infrastructure

[Richard Oxland (roxland-deactivatedaccount)]

There's a link or two missing. Try

$ cd /usr/share/emacs/22.1/site-lisp
$ sudo ln -s ../site-lisp/gnuplot-mode gnuplot-mode
$ cd /usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp
$ sudo ln -s ../../emacs/site-lisp/gnuplot-mode gnuplot-mode

This fixed it for me. Not sure which one of the above was actually required.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04?

[Daniel Cordeiro (dcordeiro)]

Seen to be working fine in 8.10.
Thanks!

[Alessio Mangiarotti (alessio-lipc)]

This bug is still present in ubuntu 9.10 (karmic). Adding the above mentioned symbolic link in /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp fixed the problem for me.

[holken (holken)]

I confirm the bug is present in Karmic with emacs23. Creating the symbolic link solved the problem:
$ cd /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp
$ sudo ln -s ../../emacs/site-lisp/gnuplot-mode gnuplot-mode

[Diogo F. S. Ramos (diogofsr)]

I confirm the bug in Karmic.

The workaround proposed works. Thanks.

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