GMT Quickstart¶

Running¶

Included on this Live DVD are the GMT documentation (HTML and PDF), example scripts (including a low resolution worldwide coastline), tutorial (HTML and PDF), and data sets for the tutorial.

HTML and PDF documentation and tutorial can be found in: /usr/share/doc/gmt/html/,
examples can be found in: /usr/share/doc/gmt-examples/examples/,
and tutorial data can be found in: /usr/share/doc/gmt-tutorial/tutorial/.

The low resolution coastline can be found in /usr/share/gmt/coast/.

Examples¶

There are 30 example jobs built in, and a script to run them all:

Open a terminal, then

cp -r /usr/share/doc/gmt-examples/examples/ gmt-examples
cd gmt-examples/
./do_examples.csh

[whiz .. bang .. whirl]

View results: (within gv [1], type q to quit)

for PLOT in *.ps ; do
   echo "$PLOT"
   gv "$PLOT"
done

Footnotes

[1]	Ghostview http://www.gnu.org/software/gv/