Package Details: gnuplot-headless 6.0.2-2

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/gnuplot-headless.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: gnuplot-headless
Description: Plotting package which outputs to PostScript, PNG, GIF, and others, without X deps
Upstream URL: http://www.gnuplot.info
Licenses: LicenseRef-Gnuplot
Conflicts: gnuplot
Provides: gnuplot
Submitter: nimrod_mack
Maintainer: ejona86
Last Packager: ejona86
Votes: 1
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2017-04-22 23:41 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-03-23 16:38 (UTC)

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m040601 commented on 2025-03-27 10:06 (UTC) (edited on 2025-03-27 10:25 (UTC) by m040601) 

... why you think texlive depends on a GUI.

I do not think that.

... allows texlive support ....so may be desired by some users.

My point is those "some users" who might desire that, would probably not be here in the first place. They would not be here looking for a not official user maintained "lean" PKGBUILD alternative. The kind of users who install gigabytes of tex, are certainly not bothered by a few gui dependencies of gnuplot.

They are already well served with the official Arch package.

The "gnuplot-headless" also doesnt pull texlive.

But anyway, it's your personal decision I guess.

6.0.2-2 enables block terminal output.

Yeap, and it works wonderfully. Severely underrated.

I've been using that for a long time, even since the experimental branch. I use it on the linux framebuffer with fbterm and tmux. Not even starting X. That's the whole reason I ended up here . Looking for an alternative to the official package, not forcing me with Qt/gtk/tex etc.

ejona86 commented on 2025-03-23 16:41 (UTC)

@m040601, 6.0.2-2 enables block terminal output.

ejona86 commented on 2025-03-23 16:28 (UTC)

@m040601, the texlive make dependency is not needed at runtime, although building with it allows texlive support if you do use texlive. texlive doesn't need a dependency on X/Wayland/Mesa, so may be desired by some users. I don't see why you think texlive depends on a GUI.

When a package is out-of-date, use the "Flag package out-of-date" link above.

m040601 commented on 2025-03-21 23:42 (UTC) (edited on 2025-03-22 00:00 (UTC) by m040601) 

21 source=("http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnuplot/gnuplot-$pkgver.tar.gz"

Source should be https not http.

The Archlinux official gnuplot package already pulls "6.0.2", not "6.0.0"

source = https://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnuplot/gnuplot-6.0.2.tar.gz
source = lua53_compat.patch

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/files/gnuplot/ says, 

      Name        Modified    Size        
     6.0.2       2024-12-23           3,581
    testing      2024-12-06           0
     6.0.1       2024-05-30           686
     6.0.0       2024-04-22           110
     5.4.10      2024-04-19           148


Get an email when there's a new version of gnuplot

m040601 commented on 2025-03-21 23:36 (UTC) (edited on 2025-03-21 23:53 (UTC) by m040601)

Could we try to make this PKGBUILD leaner ?

Make Deps                     : texlive-latexextra

will of course as a consequence lead to pulling this outrageous megas of dependencies,

Package (10)                    New Version  Net Change  Download Size

extra/dvisvgm                   3.4.4-1        2.13 MiB       1.03 MiB
extra/ffcall                    2.4-3          0.45 MiB       0.06 MiB
extra/libsigsegv                2.14-3         0.03 MiB       0.01 MiB
extra/potrace                   1.16-3         0.19 MiB       0.09 MiB
extra/texlive-basic             2025.1-1      33.92 MiB       6.68 MiB
extra/texlive-bin               2025.1-1      53.72 MiB      11.61 MiB
extra/texlive-latex             2025.1-1      11.76 MiB       1.31 MiB
extra/texlive-latexrecommended  2025.1-1      16.53 MiB       2.29 MiB
extra/texlive-pictures          2025.1-1      77.94 MiB      16.58 MiB
extra/texlive-latexextra        2025.1-1      95.69 MiB      29.63 MiB

I dont understand the purpose of this (make) dependency "texlive-latexextra"

This "gnuplot-nogui", https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnuplot-nogui, seems to do it without it.

optdepends=('texlive-core')

Isnt there a way for this "gnuplot-headless" to completly ditch that texlive thing ?

Why does it have to be a "make" dependency instead of a "opt" dependency ?

Wasn't it the purpose of this PKGBUILD "gnuplot-headless" to provide a lean alternative to the Archlinux official "gnuplot" ? Without guis AND without X dependencies ?

I am not an expert on PKGBUILDs, but a quick look at the "INSTALL" file instructions of gnuplot , grepping for "tex" or "texlive", says,

....
....
   There are several options available for configure that you may want
to change.  A complete list of options is available through

$ ./configure --help
....
....

  --without-latex         do not install latex support files
  --with-textdir=DIR      where to install latex support files
....
....
....
  Install additonal tools and libraries for development version

        sudo apt install gfortran libcerf-dev libwebp-dev adwaita-icon-theme-full \
                unzip texlive-science
....
....

I see nowhere the mention of texlive or anything tex related being absolutely essential.

Thanks in advance.

m040601 commented on 2023-09-26 23:36 (UTC)

The maintainer doesnt react to comments and flags.

And

Username:   nimrod_mack
Last Login:     2022-07-11 (UTC)

Anyone interested in adopting this PKGBUILD ?

m040601 commented on 2023-09-01 06:50 (UTC) (edited on 2023-09-01 06:56 (UTC) by m040601)

This is a very usefull PKGBUILD. I hope that if this had enough votes it could be an Arch official package someday.

version 5.4.8 has been released for 2 months now. And version 6.0 is already in the pipeline, and expected later in 2023.

This PKGBUILD has been marked as out of date, but the maintainer doesnt respond. He hasnt logged in to the AUR for more than a year.

Username:   nimrod_mack
Registration date:  2015-09-07 (UTC)
Last Login:     2022-07-11 (UTC)

Anyone interested in adopting it ?

jkhsjdhjs commented on 2021-06-30 14:51 (UTC)

Ah sorry, I got confused by my ARMv8 architecture being aarch64 and assumed that ARMv7 would be aarch32, because it doesn't have the 64 bit extension of ARMv8. So actually I meant armv7h instead of aarch32. Sorry for the inconvenience!

I also didn't know that 'any' meant the compiled package works on any architecture, just thought it meant it will compile on any architecture. Thanks for the link!

nimrod_mack commented on 2021-06-29 13:33 (UTC)

Yes, this is what it did for me as well :) I added aarch64 and also aarch32 (although I'm not aware of any Arch derivative supporting this architecture). I did not put "any" in the "arch" field, though, as this is against wiki recommendations (see [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD#arch])

jkhsjdhjs commented on 2021-06-29 02:15 (UTC)

Thanks for maintaining this package, quite useful when you want to generate plots on a headless server without all the extra X dependencies.

This also compiles on aarch32 and aarch64 btw, so I guess you can just put in 'any' for the arch in the PKGBUILD.