Re: error message: Could not find colormap "gray"

On Jul 12, 2009, at 11:29 AM, andika asyuda wrote:
> When I used h5topng command, the following message appeared :
>
> Could not find colormap "gray
>
> I saw several discussion about this. They suggested to use h5utils  
> 1.11, but I still cannot find it. I found the newer version instead,  
> version 1.12.
> But, I still cannot use install it. There are several messages when  
> I configure it.  It cannot find libhdf(HDF4), libmatheval, libpng,  
> and mkoctfile.
> Please tell me what to do . I really need help and suggestion on these

Version 1.12 should work too.

It can install okay without hdf4, libmatheval, or mkoctfile (it will  
just omit the h5toh4, h5math, and octave plugins).  But you will need  
to install libpng.  In particular, you will need to install the libpng- 
dev package (or some similar name) to compile software using libpng on  
your system.

Note, however, that the problem of the out-of-date h5utils package was  
finally fixed in Debian (which now has version 1.12), so it should be  
much easier for you to use the precompiled Debian package.  Just make  
sure you are using the Debian "testing" distribution (which has the  
latest working stuff) and update your system.  Or, if you are using  
Ubuntu, you will either have to point it to the Debian packages, or  
switch to the Ubuntu "karmic" distribution (I hate these stupid code  
names).  If you don't know how to do this, ask for help on the  
relevant Debian or Ubuntu mailing list (assuming you are using Debian  
or Ubuntu).

Steven