I don't think my message made it to the mailing list... See below.
Charles
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From: charles reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] installation
To: Robert Fenwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
The pre-installed version of python is NOT rubbish, it's used by the system
to do various tasks. If you delete it, it will likely mess things up. I
highly recommend you leave it alone. I would recommend you do a simple web
search, since there are a whole slew of guides to doing this. Try this one:
http://www.mtheory.co.uk/support/index.php?title=Installing_Python_-_iPython%2C_Numpy%2C_Scipy_and_Matplotlib_on_OS_X
There is a list of links at the bottom with at least 5 more guides to
installing "python for science" on Mac OS X 10.5 ("python for science" being
the suite of iPython, SciPy, NumPy, and matplotlib). Also try this handy
"SciPy Superpack" script:
http://macinscience.org/?page_id=6
It atuomatically downloads & installs the python for science programs from
the svn source (so you don't have to worry about updating, you just re-run
the script).
Good luck.
Charles
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The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics... If you think things are a mess now, JUST
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Robert Fenwick <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would really like to use matplot lib, however I am having big
> problems as I try to do this on OSX 10.5. if there is someone how
> could give a detailed explination of how to get rid of the
> preinstalled python that is apparently rubbish and then how to install
> a new python version that would really help me. I am completely lost
> in a world of eggs etc.
>
> Bryn
>
> P.S. here is my particular compilation problem. Is there a simple
> solution so that I can code my first graph today?
>
> salvatella02:Downloads rbf$ sudo easy_install
> matplotlib-0.98.3-py2.5-macosx-10.3.egg
> Password:
> Processing matplotlib-0.98.3-py2.5-macosx-10.3.egg
> removing
> '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib-0.98.3-py2.5-macosx-10.3.egg'
> (and everything under it)
> creating
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib-0.98.3-py2.5-macosx-10.3.egg
> Extracting matplotlib-0.98.3-py2.5-macosx-10.3.egg to
>
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages
> Adding matplotlib 0.98.3 to easy-install.pth file
>
> Installed
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib-0.98.3-py2.5-macosx-10.3.egg
> Processing dependencies for matplotlib==0.98.3
> Searching for matplotlib==0.98.3
> Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/matplotlib/
> Reading http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net
> Reading
> https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80706&package_id=278194
> Reading
> https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80706&package_id=82474
> Reading
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80706&package_id=82474
> Reading http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80706
> Best match: matplotlib 0.98.3
> Downloading
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/matplotlib/matplotlib-0.98.3.tar.gz?modtime=1217773039&big_mirror=0
> Processing matplotlib-0.98.3.tar.gz
> Running matplotlib-0.98.3/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
> /tmp/easy_install-JGl_1Z/matplotlib-0.98.3/egg-dist-tmp-T6PVvy
>
> ============================================================================
> BUILDING MATPLOTLIB
> matplotlib: 0.98.3
> python: 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Feb 22 2008, 07:57:53) [GCC
> 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363)]
> platform: darwin
>
> REQUIRED DEPENDENCIES
> numpy: 1.1.1
> freetype2: found, but unknown version (no pkg-config)
>
> OPTIONAL BACKEND DEPENDENCIES
> libpng: found, but unknown version (no pkg-config)
> Tkinter: Tkinter: 50704, Tk: 8.4, Tcl: 8.4
> wxPython: no
> * wxPython not found
> Gtk+: no
> * Building for Gtk+ requires pygtk; you must be able
> * to "import gtk" in your build/install environment
> Qt: no
> Qt4: no
> Cairo: no
>
> OPTIONAL DATE/TIMEZONE DEPENDENCIES
> datetime: present, version unknown
> dateutil: matplotlib will provide
> pytz: matplotlib will provide
>
> OPTIONAL USETEX DEPENDENCIES
> dvipng: 1.9
> ghostscript: 8.57
> latex: 3.141592
>
> EXPERIMENTAL CONFIG PACKAGE DEPENDENCIES
> configobj: matplotlib will provide
> enthought.traits: no
>
> [Edit setup.cfg to suppress the above messages]
>
> ============================================================================
> warning: no files found matching 'NUMARRAY_ISSUES'
> warning: no files found matching 'MANIFEST'
> warning: no files found matching 'matplotlibrc'
> warning: no files found matching 'makeswig.py'
> warning: no files found matching 'examples/data/*'
> warning: no files found matching 'lib/mpl_toolkits'
> warning: no files found matching '*' under directory 'examples'
> warning: no files found matching '*' under directory 'swig'
> gcc: unrecognized option '-no-cpp-precomp'
> cc1plus: error: unrecognized command line option "-arch"
> cc1plus: error: unrecognized command line option "-arch"
> cc1plus: warning: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-long-double"
> error: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc' failed with exit
> status 1
> Exception exceptions.OSError: (2, 'No such file or directory',
> 'src/image.cpp') in <bound method CleanUpFile.__del__ of
> <setupext.CleanUpFile instance at 0x1bb48a0>> ignored
> Exception exceptions.OSError: (2, 'No such file or directory',
> 'src/path.cpp') in <bound method CleanUpFile.__del__ of
> <setupext.CleanUpFile instance at 0x1bb4080>> ignored
> Exception exceptions.OSError: (2, 'No such file or directory',
> 'src/backend_agg.cpp') in <bound method CleanUpFile.__del__ of
> <setupext.CleanUpFile instance at 0x1bb43c8>> ignored
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