Installation Instructions
These instructions are for Version 5.3.1 of PGPLOT.
To install PGPLOT, you need to perform the following steps. These
steps are described more fully below for each operating system.
Read the release notes
to see what is new in this version.
- Download the distribution file. This is
a gzipped tar archive:
pgplot531.tar.gz
.
- Unpack the distribution file to create the “PGPLOT
distribution” directory tree. This is identical for all
implementations of PGPLOT and can be placed on any disk that is
visible on the target system, including read-only network-mounted
disks.
- Create a writable directory in which the PGPLOT library and
associated files will be created. One such directory is needed for
each different operating system and compiler combination (“target
system”) that you wish to support. This should not be the same
directory as the directory containing the source code.
- Configure PGPLOT by selecting device drivers from the available
list.
- Execute the supplied scripts and makefiles to create the library
and demonstration programs.
- Install the optional C binding for PGPLOT, which provides a
convenient way to call PGPLOT subroutines from a program written in C
or C++. This requires an ANSI C compiler (that understands function
prototypes) and is not available on all systems.
- Run the demonstration programs on your selected devices and verify
that they run satisfactorily.
- Install the optional documentation files.
You will need the following software, which is not distributed with PGPLOT:
Detailed installation instructions are available for the following
operating systems: