On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Jose L. Gomez Dans wrote: > I downloaded gnuplot 3.7 today, as I wanted to compile it to plot graphs > on the console. Compilation went OK, but if I try to plot a graph in the > console, I get an I/O permission error. For a try, I logged in as root, and > everything worked fine. Since other programs that use libvga work fine (I > can only think of zgv at the moment) from my normal user account, I am at a > bit of a loss here. I suspect that I set some dodgy permissions, but which?
The suid bit (chmod u+s) on gnuplot will allow you to use it under console. This is probably not the best way to achieve that, but it works. BTW: You might want to use the Debian package instead.
