These instructions are for installing a statically compiled version of 
blasvis, such as that distributed by me. The version supplied by will 
comes as a tarball which can be unpacked into your chosen installation 
location. Usually this would be /usr/local/ or your home directory. To 
install the package 

1) Move to your chosen installation directory. 

2) Unpack the tar ball ( e.g. tar xzvf blasvis-1.0.3-static.tar.gz )

3) You need to set the environment variable PLPLOT_LIB to point to the 
location of the font data needed by plplot. Suppose your installation 
directory was /path/to/mydir. The plplot data is then in 
/path/to/mydir/share/plplot-data

If you use bash then you will need to do something like
export PLPLOT_LIB=/path/to/mydir/share/plplot-data

For csh it will look something like
setenv PLPLOT_LIB /path/to/mydir/share/plplot-data

You might want to edit your profile so you don't have to do this every 
time you log in.

Ensure that /path/to/mydir/bin is in your path.

Brief documentation on using blasvis++ is available in info / html / pdf 
formats in the docs directory.

Andrew Ross
<aross@env.leeds.ac.uk>