Hello all. I’m a new user of GMT with very little programming experience but have been running Linux for 12 years. I have an interest in maps, of course.
For whatever reasons when executing the following code…
pscoast -Rg -JG-75/41/4.5i -B15g15 -Dc -A5000 -Gblack -P > GMT_orthographic.ps
…the lines of longitude and latitude are represented by a plus sign (+). Do you know how I can fix this?
Hi,
If you are a new user of GMT you should definitively have started with GMT6. Regarding your question, you probably have some .gmtdefaults file trailing around with a setting to plot crosses instead of grid lines. See the man page of gmtdefaults (I think), or gmt.conf in GMT6.
But tell us, what did find so scaring in the installing instructions? (aside from the fact that infinite number of Linux distros lead to long list of choices)
Yes, gentlemen…only version 5.4.3 is in Ubuntu 18.04 repository (Synaptic Manager).
But, Joaquim, to answer your question about the difficulty of installing GMT 6.
You’re most likely way, way, way more advanced in Linux than I ever will be. Looking at the instructions for “building GMT 6” (since Ubuntu 18.04 installs v. 5) it’s recommended to “build” GMT. That’s way too complex for me to follow as too many dependencies and too many possible ways to wreck the installation.
To tell you a secrete, I can’t stand unix machines for more than 30 minutes. I’m a happy Windows user. But I do build GMT in those tortuous systems time to time.
Homebrew is for Macs but there is a Linuxbrew as well and it should be a very interesting alternative, though I don’t know about 32 bits availability, but why not?