On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Mauro Cavalcanti <mauro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear ALL, > > Long time no see.... Well, I have recently upgraded from Ubuntu > Intrepid to Jaunty (sure, I know that I'm a couple of versions > delayed, but keeping a working system stable is essential). I did not > a fresh install of Ubuntu, just upgraded using the system's facility > for that. Previously I have did that from Ubuntu Hardy to Intrepid, > with less (or no) troubles. However, in Jaunty the default Python > interpreter has been upgraded from 2.5 to 2.6 and this is presenting > the most annoying problems. > > For now, the most vexing problem is that although Matplotlib is > correctly installed and seemingly working, it does not show any > graphics! For exemple, if I run the simple example from Matplotlib's > website: > > Python 2.6.2 (release26-maint, Apr 19 2009, 01:56:41) > [GCC 4.3.3] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>> from pylab import randn, hist >>>> x = randn(10000) >>>> hist(x, 100) > > Instead of a nice histogram, I am just presented with a "dump" of the > contents of an array: > > (array([ 2, 0, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 3, 4, 7, 15, 16, 9, > (cut here to save space) > 3.97823055, 4.05708515, 4.13593975, 4.21479434, 4.29364894, > 4.37250354]), <a list of 100 Patch objects>) > > No error messages or complaints about a missing graphics backend is > issued, so I'm lost. > > Any hints?
When you run setup.py, the install routines attempt to determine what backend to use. If a suitable gui toolkit is not found, mpl defaults to the Agg backend. I suggest creating a matplotlibrc file that specifies a gui backend. Darren ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
