a50 package does not find executable

[Carola Berger]

Dear all,

I am still pretty new to Unix operating system.

I want to use your a50 package, to visualize some results of my Velvet assembly.

I installed it via the

cabal update
cabal install a50

commands. it also seemed that the installation was successful. But when I try to run it it gives me this error:

a50: Couldn't find the 'gnuplot' executable - aborting


I googled a lot, to find out what the problem is, but I can not. In the installation it did say that the executables were installed

I than also reinstalled the package with

sudo apt-get install ghc cabal-install
cabal update
cabal install a50

But still I get the same message.

Could anybody please help me? Maybe somebody had a similar problem? I would highly appreciate it.

[Michael.Ante]

Maybe your gnuplot is missing.
Try in the command line 'which gnuplot' to locate it. If you couldn't find it, install it.
Otherwise, add the location to your PATH.

[Carola Berger]

I got it!

THX!

For people who might run into the same problem: I tried to install gnuplot also via

cabal install gnuplot

, but this did not fix the problem. but if I install it via

sudo appt -get install gnuplot

it worked