Good morning,
Doug replied:
> Go to Google and input extcalc.rpm and you'll find several entries
that are specific
> to Fedora, and some that do not seem to be specific. Download the
file and
> install it with a root command line "rpm -Uvh filename.rpm" where the
filename.rpm is
> the complete name of the downloaded file, complete with any version
numbers, etc.
> (Without the quotes that I have used here, of course.)
> If the downloaded file has word spaces in it, then type \ before any
space.
> The same goes for parentheses--both ( and ).
> Of course, the file will not be updated all the time, but so what? If
it works now,
> it should continue to work on and on into the future.
I was about to do that when I saw Stan's response:
> I took a quick look at the sourceforge page for this project, and it
> looks like it uses qt4 as its interface. So it might not work in
> latest Fedora versions, because they use qt5. It looks like
> development has stopped on this approximately two years ago, so to use
> it with qt5 would require modifying it yourself.
>
> It might just require a few tweaks, but it could require more extensive
> alteration.
I looked for other graphics calculators for Linux and found "GMT"
(Genius Mathematics Tool) and "Qalculate!". "Apper" does find them, so
I installed them (as "Genius Math Tool", "Qalculate!, and "Qalculate!
(GTK)"). I gave them quick, preliminary tries, and they seem to work.
Plots of sines and cosines do look nice and wavy. If those are not
adequate, I could wrestle with "GDL", or perhaps C++ writing files and
"gnuplot" reading them.
I'm closing this.
Bill.
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