Gnu octave cannot plot

[Ruben Gonzalez]

Linux Mint 16 PETRA Cinnamon 64 bit: with Octave 3.6.4

I successfully installed gnuplot (gnuplot-1.0.1.tar.gz using "sudo octave" then "pkg install gnuplot-1.0.1.tar.gz"), but when I type "figure" or use "plot" command, octave returns the error:

octave:1> figure
error: popen2: popen2 (child): unable to start process -- No such file or directory
error: called from:
error: /usr/share/octave/3.6.4/m/plot/private/__gnuplot_open_stream__.m at line 30, column 44
error: /usr/share/octave/3.6.4/m/plot/__gnuplot_drawnow__.m at line 72, column 19
sh: 1: gnuplot: not found
octave:2> error: 'unset' undefined near line 2 column 1
error: Permission denied
error: ignoring octave_execution_exception while preparing to exit

the command "> figure" should have produced a blank figure. Oddly enough, this procedure properly produced the figure with the "RC" edition.

[Thomas Buick (zogwarg)]

Linux Mint 16 PETRA Cinnamon 32 bit: with Octave 3.6.4

I've got the same bug having installed gnuplot today through apt-get
I get the exact same error message

[Thomas Buick (zogwarg)]

Fixeg by installing the following packages to linux:
gnuplot
gnuplot-X11

Does it work for you Ruben?

The dependencies should be added in the octave package really

[Ruben Gonzalez (ruben-carbonbased)]

Yes I actually solved the issue a while ago and forgot to post it. I found the dependencies for octave in some obscure website after checking mys system I found out that I didn't have gnuplot X11 installed. When I installed it, everything functioned normally.

[alyrkl (aliyurekli20)]

Thanks Thomas it works