GMT Quickstart¶

Running¶

Included on this LiveDVD 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 29 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.sh

[whiz .. bang .. whirl]

View results: (type ‘q’ to quit gv)

for PLOT in `find . -name *.ps` ; do
   echo "$PLOT"
   gv "$PLOT"
done