On Jan 21, 2016 11:43 AM, "Chris Barker" <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > > nice, idea, but.... > > libX11.so.6 > libXext.so.6 > libXrender.so.1 > libGL.so.1 > > These are all X11, yes? pretty much any workstation will have these, but in general, servers won't. > > Someone on this thread suggested that that's OK -- don't expect a GUI package to work on a linux box without a GUI. But some of these libs might get used for stuff like back-end rendering, etc, so would be expected to work on a headless box. I think Anaconda an Canopy have gotten away with this because both of their user bases are primarily desktop data analysis type of stuff -- not web services, web servers, etc.
I can only speak for myself and my team, but we use Anaconda on servers on a daily basis, including with libraries like matplotlib to generate images that are displayed over a web service. I believe this is a pretty common use case, especially with popular apps like Jupyter servers.
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