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Qalculate! GTK+ UI
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GNU plot installation for Qalculate #406

Open grphillips opened 2 years ago

grphillips commented 2 years ago

I have a portable installation of Qalculate, and plotting does not work unless I install GNU plot. I have installed GNU plot in the folder that I extracted Qalculatre to, an still plotting is unavailable. What does it mean exactly when I am told "..GNU plot must be found in the same executable search path..."? My GNU plot folder IS in the same folder as the Qalculate exe file already.

hanna-kn commented 2 years ago

There is no same in the sentence displayed by Qalculate. GNU plot must be in the PATH environment variable of Windows. It should however be possible to copy the contents of the bin folder from gnuplot to the qalculate folder (without replacing any files).

I've now updated the "portable" packages to include Gnuplot.

grphillips commented 2 years ago

Thanks Hanna. I did copy files from the gnu bin folder to Qalculate and this wrecked Qalculate - which stopped working. Can you give me a link to the neew portable version of Qalculate and tell me exactly where to install gnu plot files/folders? Apologies - I am not a pc expert.

Kind regards Geoff Phillips @.***

On Tue, 26 Apr 2022, 5:40 pm Hanna Knutsson, @.***> wrote:

There is no same in the sentence displayed by Qalculate. GNU plot must be in the PATH environment variable of Windows. It should however be possible to copy the contents of the bin folder from gnuplot to the qalculate folder (without replacing any files).

I've now updated the "portable" packages to include Gnuplot.

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hanna-kn commented 2 years ago

https://github.com/Qalculate/qalculate-gtk/releases/download/v4.1.1/qalculate-4.1.1b-x64.zip

grphillips commented 2 years ago

Fantastic!!! Brilliant. Thanks SO much! You have made my day. I appreciate your efforts and thanks for a great program that will help my students. Great to have all rolled into one download.

Kind regards

Geoff Phillips gp @.**@.

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https://github.com/Qalculate/qalculate-gtk/releases/download/v4.1.1/qalculate-4.1.1b-x64.zip

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grphillips commented 2 years ago

Hanna, I know there is Qalculate manual online, but is there a pdf version I could use to read offline or print a full copy? I wish to learn as much as possible about this brilliant program (for example when on holiday with no internet connection).

Kind regards Geoff Phillips @.***

On Tue, 26 Apr 2022, 6:25 pm Hanna Knutsson, @.***> wrote:

https://github.com/Qalculate/qalculate-gtk/releases/download/v4.1.1/qalculate-4.1.1b-x64.zip

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