I built octave 8.4.0 for Rocky 8.
Based on the configure output the qt libraries should be linked in and the gui should have been built.
I am trying to run it on a server without X11 but I would still like to be able to produce plots using the qt toolkit.
I have essentially the same issue as: this post but I'm not running from a terminal emulator inside a window manager.
Should it be possible to use the qt graphics toolkit without X11?
Most of the libraries needed for octave (including qt) are stored in a non-standard location which is a network share. I therefore need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include all the correct locations. Is it necessary to set other environment variables so octave can use the qt toolkit?
octave:7> available_graphics_toolkits
ans =
{
[1,1] = gnuplot
}
If I run octave --no-gui, and the search the processes using ps, I see that it is still calling octave-cli.
Based on the post I linked, I was expecting the --no-gui option to start octave and not octave-cli so it could use the qt toolkit