How does the CLI work?
The first step is to make sure your configuration supports it. This also assume you have all the necessary supporting modules such as gnuplot and ghostscript if you want to generate files. If you’re running on a Linux machine, you also need to make sure you’re running X to display the graphics. If you’re running on a PC connected to a Linux machine through a remote terminal session not only does that Linux machine need to be running X you also need to set the display back to your PC on which you have an X Server running. If colplot is installed on a PC, you’re ready to begin. The first thing to do is to make sure colplot is installed correctly and to do this you can just run the command colplot -help to make sure it’s there. If you haven’t installed it via the rpm the soft-link colplot which points to the executable colplot.pl will not be there and you may need to invoke it in a system-specific manner. At the very top of the display it will show its defaults including the directory it’
