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I'm trying to install gnuplot 5.3 from github. I'm running

aclocal
autoheader
autoconf
automake

inside the package location.

This gives an error because automake is looking for Makefile.in and I have a bunch of Makefile.am files, supposedly automake should change the .am files to .in but that clearly doesn't happen. Can't run ./configure after becuase of the same reason, how do I get the .am files to change to .in?

Juan David
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At first please note that GNU Plot is packaged in all Ubuntu versions:

binary gnuplot package

But you can compile GNU Plot from GitHub by using the followed procedure:

  1. Enable Source code repositories in Software & Updates (software-properties-gtk) and install compile-time dependencies to be completely sure that all dependencies are satisfied on compile time

    sudo apt-get build-dep gnuplot

  2. Install needed tools

    sudo apt-get install git lua5.1

  3. Clone repository and run ./prepare script first (!!! important step !!!)

    git clone https://github.com/gnuplot/gnuplot.git
cd gnuplot
./prepare

  4. Then run all usual tools:

    ./configure
make
#make check # shows various very beautiful plots
sudo make install

    Note: it is better to use Checkinstall (sudo make checkinstall install) in last step, decide by yourself.

N0rbert
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