Plotting Trouble and GR

General Usage
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Hello,
I have been struggling with the base Plots package and have been getting the following error every time I try to plot
/home/ivan/.julia/artifacts/7f59a0ec3d19c98dce30a3ba8ea9cbd8824ce4a6/bin/gksqt: /usr/bin/…/lib/julia/libcurl.so.4: version `CURL_OPENSSL_4’ not found (required by /usr/lib/libproxy/libpxbackend-1.0.so)
connect: Connection refused
GKS: can’t connGKS: Open failed in routine OPEN_WS
GKS: GKS not in proper state. GKS must be either in the state WSOP or WSAC in routine ACTIVATE_WS
GKS: GKS not in proper state. GKS must be either in the state WSAC or SGOP in routine POLYLINEect to GKS socket application
GKS: Open failed in routine OPEN_WS
GKS: GKS not in proper state. GKS must be either in the state WSOP or WSAC in routine ACTIVATE_WS
GKS: GKS not in proper state. GKS must be either in the state WSAC or SGOP in routine POLYLINE
… (repeats)

After some googling and some playing around, I found the same problem arose when I tried using the GR package and doing a simple histogram(randn(1000)). I have tried rebuilding the package to no avail, and other suggestions such as updating and installing other packages does nothing. Any tips for how to proceed?

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Are you able to say how you installed julia on your system? Following this advice:

are you able to post the latter outputs?

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Yes so the versioninfo is
Julia Version 1.9.3
Commit bed2cd540a1 (2023-08-24 14:43 UTC)
Build Info:
Official https://julialang.org/ release
Platform Info:
OS: Linux (x86_64-linux-gnu)
CPU: 16 × 13th Gen Intel(R) Core™ i5-1340P
WORD_SIZE: 64
LIBM: libopenlibm
LLVM: libLLVM-14.0.6 (ORCJIT, goldmont)
Threads: 1 on 16 virtual cores

and the package info i recently updated and for GR it is
Status ~/.julia/environments/v1.9/Manifest.toml
[28b8d3ca] GR v0.72.10

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Ok. This seems related to this issue: Arch Linux: bundled runtime fails with `CURL_OPENSSL_4' not found/can't connect to GKS socket · Issue #528 · jheinen/GR.jl · GitHub

Do you need to use GR as the backend for Plots? If not, you can try a different one: Backends · Plots

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Ok this helps! I will most likely be using a different backend for now in that case.

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