I attempted to install Pylab on my own computer and so far have had no success. I followed these steps: 1) downloaded Python 2.6 for OS 10.4 2) downloaded the corresponding numpy and installed it (successfully) 3) downloaded the corresponding matplotlib (matplotlib-1.0.0-python.org-py2.6-macosx10.4.dmg) and installed it [One possible cause for the error is that, though the package includes "macosx10.4", the actual installing package (which one can see if one tries a customized install) says "macosx10.5".] 4) Attempted to run Python and import Pylab. I got an error related to _tkinter not being found (even though it is installed). I looked all over the forums for this error, and it seems that the only solution is to edit the setup.py file and recompile matplotlib. However, because I installed from a binary, I cannot do this. So I attempted to install from source: 5) I downloaded matplotlib-1.0.0.tar.gz and untarred it. Then I ran: 'make' (which supposedly takes care of finding out where all the Mac stuff is located) and 'python setup.py build', the default command for building Python modules. Now I get a ton of errors, the first one being: freetype2: found, but unknown version (no pkg-config) * WARNING: Could not find 'freetype2' headers in any * of '.', './freetype2'. As a third try, I attempted to install using easy_install, a tool for installing Python modules: 6) I ran 'easy_install matplotlib'. This runs very quickly (suspicious) 7) The same error as in step 4 comes up when trying to import pylab I went into /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ and deleted all matplotlib-related stuff, thinking that maybe easy_install didn't do anything because matplotlib was already installed 9) Repeated step 6, and saw the same errors that came up when trying to install from source
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