# How to plot a timeline

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-plot-a-timeline/25095>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** plotting, gmt\
**Created:** [June 9, 2019, 5:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-plot-a-timeline/25095 "2019-06-09T17:48:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![joa-quim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joa-quim/32/227_2.png) [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-plot-a-timeline/25095/21 "2019-06-19T13:53:56Z")

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Never remember that myself (do it very rarely) but found this [SO question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13428910/how-to-set-the-environmental-variable-ld-library-path-in-linux) that answers just that.

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**Author:** ![joa-quim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joa-quim/32/227_2.png) [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 4:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-plot-a-timeline/25095/22 "2019-06-19T16:43:16Z")

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Still no success?  
We just released GMT6.0 RC1. You can find the files [here](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/gmt/releases/tag/6.0.0rc1) and specifically the Windows installer [here](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/gmt/releases/download/6.0.0rc1/GMT-6.0.0rc1-win64.exe).

A colleague also tested the Win version and all went well (see [this thread](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/gmt/issues/962#issuecomment-503628887)).

I will update soon the Readme page of [GMT.jl](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/GMT.jl)

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**Author:** ![Yifan\_Liu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4da419/32.png) [@Yifan\_Liu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Yifan_Liu)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 5:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-plot-a-timeline/25095/23 "2019-06-19T17:09:36Z")

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Thanks for your help! For now I think I will still stick to the latex tikz solution, but I will try to get GMT work later. I thought GMT is exclusively used for creating maps, but now I notice it is very powerful.

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**Author:** ![joa-quim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joa-quim/32/227_2.png) [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 5:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-plot-a-timeline/25095/24 "2019-06-19T17:13:25Z")

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Yes, it does a lot more than just mapping. Just to finish this, I also have this (had forgotten) in the Readme. It was meant for OSX but should apply the same for Linux (when it needs)

```julia
On OSX, with a manual GMT build and dependencies obtained with Homebrew (that are installed at /user/local/lib), I had to help Julia finding MY libgmt.dylib, with (this line should than be added to the ~/.julia/config/startup.jl file)

push!(Libdl.DL_LOAD_PATH, "/Users/j/programs/gmt5/lib")

```

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