gnuplot不支持png格式解决

ubuntu16.04，回过头来做自己10年前做的工作，发现以前真的很投入，做了那么多的事情，一个人每天生成40－50页的报告，如果不是我的使用程序，自行搭建Linux服务器，自动化运行，不知要耗费多少人力物力。

重新找同10年前的代码，发现不能运行。不能创建png文件，最后还是在英文里搜到了答案。

linux - Terminal "png" missing when using Gnuplot - Stack Overflow

I installed gnuplot5.2.2 on Linux mint (based in ubuntu 16.04) and managed to get the png in the set terminal.

I installed this libraries.

sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libgd-dev

Afterwards I re-ran ./configure then make, make check and make install.

While reading the output of ./configure It seems that cairo was indeed necessary, as mentionned by User Christoph - Stack Overflow above in the comments of the question.

Here's the configuration summary after running ./configure