Re: Help with babel and gnuplot

[Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>]

You need to install gnuplot.el, which looks like it can be installed
with ELPA.

Cheers,

Paul Stansell <paulstansell@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I hesitate to ask this question as I feel I should be able to work it
> out myself, but I don't seem to be able to.
>
> I'm trying to get gnuplot working via babel.
>
> I'm using Emacs 24.2.1 and I have Org-mode release_8.0.6-329-g0c233a
> installed in ~/org-mode.
>
> I'm running
>
>  /usr/bin/emacs -Q -l minimal-org.el test.org
>
> where minimal-org.el contains just
>
>   (setq debug-on-error t
>     debug-on-signal nil
>     debug-on-quit nil)
>
>   (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/org-mode/lisp"))
>
>   (org-babel-do-load-languages
>     'org-babel-load-languages
>     '((gnuplot . t)))
>
> and test.org contains just
>
>   #+begin_src gnuplot :results silent
>     plot x
>   #+end_src
>
> When I press C-c C-c inside the source block I get
>
>   Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Cannot open load file" "gnuplot")
>     require(gnuplot)
>     org-babel-execute:gnuplot("plot x" ...
>     org-babel-execute-src-block(nil)
>     org-babel-execute-src-block-maybe()
>     org-babel-execute-maybe()
>     org-babel-execute-safely-maybe()
>     run-hook-with-args-until-success(org-babel-execute-safely-maybe)
>     org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c(nil)
>     call-interactively(org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c nil nil)
>
> I've been assuming it's a path issue, but
> ~/org-mode/lisp/ob-gnuplot.elc is present and I have gnuplot installed
> in /usr/bin/gnuplot.
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Paul
>

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