CentOS is a really fine platform for professional Linux servers which is-among others-characterized by stable software Releases. However, especially in a the environment every once in a and you need a recent version of a software. CentOS ships with Gnuplot 4.0.0 but I need Gnuplot >=4.4. In case others need this, too, here is my compile instructions:
# make sure your system is uptodateyum clean allyum Check-updateyum update# based on a minimal installation, you need some packages in order to compile, i suggestyum install gcc gcc-c++ make libX11 xauthyum install cairo-devel pango-devel freetype-devel gd-develcd /usr/local/src/wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/files/ gnuplot/4.4.2/gnuplot-4.4.2.tar.gz/downloadtar xzf gnuplot-4.4.2.tar.gz cd Gnuplot-4.4.2less install# start compiling. i usually install self-compiled stuff at /opt/[pkg-name]./configure --prefix=/opt/gnuplot442make# make sure the shipped version of gnuplot is removed (this is probably not necessary but prevents version mix-up) Yum remove gnuplotmake install# you might want to add a symlinkln -s /opt/gnuplot442/bin/gnuplot /usr/bin/gnuplot
CentOS Gunplot Installation