Installation

How to Obtain LabPlot
LabPlot can be found on its homepage at sourceforge.net : http://labplot.sf.net. There is an overview about all available packages at http://labplot.wiki.sourceforge.net/Download. bug-fixed packages are released regular and can be found there too.

Requirements
In order to successfully use LabPlot, you need at least a standard 3.X installation.
The following libraries are included in the LabPlot distribution. They are only used if not are already installed on the system. Check out "configure --help" for the default options.
Cephes Math Library Release 2.3: June, 1995 : adapted from Grace for using of powerful mathematical functions (parser) [Free]
qwtplot3d 0.2.7 : provide OpenGL 3D plots. Used in QWT 3D plot.
netcdf 3.5.0 : support for reading/writing Unidata Network Common Data Form (netCDF) files [see netcdf/COPYRIGHT]
texvc 20050202 : for rendering LaTeX strings as label
qhull 2003.1 : delaunay triangulation in 3d plot
Optional LabPlot uses the following programs/libraries when available :
GNU scientific library (GSL) : used for special functions in the parser and most of the analysis functions.
liborigin >= 20070926 : for ORIGIN OPJ file support
Fastest Fourier Transform in the West (fftw or fftw3) : used for fourier transform.
pstoedit : For exporting to *.eps,*.dxf,*.fig, etc. via pstoedit you need pstoedit installed.
Imagemagick/ImageMagick-C++ : For exporting to more than 100 image formats you need ImageMagick++ installed.
Script for Applications : used for scripting and plugins for LabPlot.
R >= 2.2.0 for additional functions and statistic analysis
JasPer library : support for JPEG 2000 image format
cdf : support for reading/writing Common Data Form (CDF) files
hdf5 : support for reading/writing HDF5 data files

Compilation and Installation
In order to compile and install LabPlot on your system type the following in the base directory of LabPlot distribution:

% ./configure
% make
% make install

Since LabPlot uses autoconf and automake you should have not trouble compiling it. For many systems RPM or DEB packages are available. Please check out the download section on the LabPlot homepage. If you run into any problems please report it to the author of LabPlot.