Re: Help with babel and gnuplot

[Paul Stansell <paulstansell@gmail.com>]

Hi Eric,

Thanks for your quick reply and helpful pointer!  I got it to work.

Paul


On 12 July 2013 20:05, Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> Eric Schulte
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