On 3/2/07, Robin Menneer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/26/07, Robert McWilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:55:28 +0000 > > "Robin Menneer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 2/25/07, Tony Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Use Synaptic! Search for gnuplot and then install it. Presumably, > > > > you've used Synaptic before to install stuff? > > > > > > This is the first time I've tried to use Synaptic Search and have > > > got as far as being asked for a package but failed to get the files > > > listed by you. I've got the .tar file into desktop but failed to link > > > it up with Synaptic. It's no good people raving about weaning > > > ordinary folk out of windows if they are subsequently let loose in > > > such unfriendly territory. > > > > > > > A .tar sounds like the source for gnuplot which is not the easiest way > > to install software in ubuntu. > > > > An overview of the package management system is available at: > > https://help.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu/desktopguide/C/add-applications.html > > > > The gnuplot packages are in universe (community supported packages) > > rather than main, which is not enabled by default, the instructions for > > enabling this are at: > > https://help.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu/desktopguide/C/extra-repositories.html#id2580924 > > > > [snip] > > > > > > Having used DOS for many years, I am not afraid of the concept of > > > using terminal, but just of the brute force that i may mistakedly > > > misdirect in my ignorance. The warning in Synaptic *You can render > > > your system unusable* frightens the life out of me. I'd rather > > > abandon Ubuntu than foul up my machine. Thanks, Robin > > > > > > > That warning is about messing up your ubuntu install, it is very > > unlikely that anything you do in software could cause actual do damage > > to the hardware. > > > > ________________________________________________________ > > Robert McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ormiret.com > > > > Klingon function calls do not have 'parameters' -- they have > > 'arguments' > > -- and they ALWAYS WIN THEM. > > > Upon reflection, I'm having to give up the search for a curve-fitting > program which is simple enough for me to use. This is a major > disappointment with Ubuntu - I have downloaded Di and Inkscape using > the Add/Rremove facility with ease and joy - just a pity neither would > do what I need to be done. It seems to me that Ubuntu is a bit of a > con in that much of it is lovely and easy to use, a positive joy, then > all of a sudden life gets very serioius and one has to be a bit of a > programmer to get the things that one wants. I have spent a couple of > days looking around the web, there are quite a lot of Linux packages > which contain curve-fitting but contain much else and are too complex > for me. > Curvefitting is not an especially rare facility to want and I feel a > bit let down by those others who have given me the impression (not > always here in this Ubuntu list I must quickly add) that all will be > sweetness and light. Open Office is another case in point where it > promises to plot graphs but actually fails to do it properly. I feel > guilty having taken up other people's time to no avail. Thank you > everybody. > > -- > > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > > > Postscript. Found (eventually) at www.xru.org.index.asp a program which I used on line (on a mac), is very simple, and apart from not drawing the graph, did all I wanted, including giving me the points for me to draw. It should be part of the Ubuntu package.
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