On Thursday 03 July 2008 02:28:47 pm Michael Droettboom wrote: > Friedrich Hagedorn wrote: > > Hello, > > > > today I tried to install mpl in my local home directory at work. This > > debian distribution is very old and I had to compile for my own. > > > > But I failed to compile pygtk (special cairo and pango) as a dependency > > for mpl. So I have two questions: > > > > 1. Does you have an advice to compile mpl with minimal dependencies? > > You can copy "setup.cfg.template" to "setup.cfg" and then edit the [gui] > section to disable certain GUIs. You will need at least one GUI -- > TkAgg is probably going to be the easiest to get working on an older > system. You will need to have Tkinter and the Tcl/Tk development > headers installed, however. > > > 2. Does anybody know a good python dirstibution including mpl? > > Enthought has one, but I have no experience with it.
It might be worth keeping an eye on Python(x,y). It doesn't have a linux installer yet, but it looks like Pierre is working on it. Darren ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
