Install Gnuplot but still giving this error "Could NOT find Gnuplot (missing: GNUPLOT_EXECUTABLE)"

[tohidarehman1988]

CMake Error at /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/cmake/data/share/cmake-3.25/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:230 (message):
Could NOT find Gnuplot (missing: GNUPLOT_EXECUTABLE)
Please help to resolve this.

[cmoineau]

Hello @tohidarehman1988,

Are you sure Gnuplot is well installed ?
To test this you can try:

gnuplot --version

From what I can see, GNUPLOT_EXECUTABLE is set by: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/module/FindGnuplot.html
So maybe setting this variable in the CmakeList can fix your issue ?

You can find the path to the gnuplot executable using:

which gnuplot

Cheers,
Cyril

[tohidarehman1988]

Name: PyGnuplot
Version: 0.12.3
Summary: Python Gnuplot wrapper
Home-page: https://github.com/benschneider/PyGnuplot
Author: Ben Schneider
Author-email:
License: MIT
Location: /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages
Requires:
Required-by:

[tohidarehman1988]

Please help @cmoineau
Platform is google colab:
When executing !python setup.py bdist_wheel

Error is like this given below:

cmake /content/drive/MyDrive/N2D2
-- cotire 1.8.0 loaded.
CMake Error at /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/cmake/data/share/cmake-3.25/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:230 (message):
Could NOT find Gnuplot (missing: GNUPLOT_EXECUTABLE)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/cmake/data/share/cmake-3.25/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:600 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/cmake/data/share/cmake-3.25/Modules/FindGnuplot.cmake:53 (FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS)
CMakeLists.txt:228 (find_package)

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/content/drive/MyDrive/N2D2/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
See also "/content/drive/MyDrive/N2D2/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".
error: command '/usr/local/bin/cmake' failed with exit code 1

[cmoineau]

Can you try to run the command I have send you ? CMake recquires gnuplot and it looks like pygnuplot install it in a path which is not available to Cmake.