Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Veusz is scientific plotting application suite that enables the users to create publication-ready Postscript or PDF output. It also supports SVG, EMF and bitmap, the data being read from CSV or FITS files. The latest version available is Veusz 1.21.1, which has been recently released, coming with the below fixes and changes:
- Fix missing labels if colorbar out of plot
- Preserve tags when reloading datasets
- Handle nan/inf/-inf when as value in UI
- Remove dependence on pyqtconfig in build system
- Handle errors properly in 2D CSV read
- Do not crash if selecting siblings of document widget
- Fix accidental modification of data by line widget
- Improve PDF bounding box rounding to prevent chopping near edge
- Fix function plotter in embedding
- Fix astropy version checking
- Fix crash for error bar in CSV with blank previous column
In this article I will show you how to install Veusz 1.21.1 on Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0 and other Ubuntu derivative systems.
Because it is available via PPA, install Veusz 1.21.1 on Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the veusz package. Like this:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jeremysanders/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install veusz
Optional, to remove veusz, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove veusz