This installation was done under RedHat 6.0.  Caution is advised
for other versions of Linux, and in general we also advise looking
carefully at files and permissions of any rpm package before it is
installed, e.g.,

rpm -qilp -vv package_name.rpm

1. Install PLPlot and Yorick-1.4.  The version of rpm package for PLPlot is
critical.  We made this version of PLPlot in double precision with extra
care to put essential symlinks to libraries, executables, and headers in
their correct RedHat locations.  The 990122 (1999 January 22) snapshot of
plplot-4.99 is still a beta release but supersedes previous archaic beta
releases such as plplot-4.99j.

As the super-user (after checking files and permissions! to make sure no
mistakes were made and to assure compatibility with your system):

rpm -iv plplot-990122-1.i386.rpm
rpm -iv yorick-1.4-7glibc.i386.rpm

The current yplot takes advantage of the improved procedure for embedding
foreign code in yorick-1.4 and will not work with Yorick-1.1, 1.2, or 1.3.

2. This step can be done as an ordinary user (we don't use a file
called Makefile here because of a name clash!):

make -f Makefile.build

This creates in the current directory the following executables:
yplot (portrait mode for ps and ljiip)
yplotl (original plplot landscape mode for ps and ljiip)

3. Test the installation by running yplot and yplotl
for some of the examples in demo.

4. As the super-user (after checking the install target in Makefile.build
copies files into their correct locations on a RedHat 6.0 system):

make -f Makefile.build install

Conrad Steenberg <conrad@srl.caltech.edu>
20February
1999




