On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Volker Blum <b...@fhi-berlin.mpg.de> wrote:
> ... just wanted to report this problem.
>
> At the heart of the issue is the decision to have too many dependencies in
> matplotlib (which is why I am posting here). That, although viewed as good
> style, leads to an installation process that is, ultimately, practically
> impossible - except by buying a prepackaged solution. (which is possible
> but probably not the original intention)
>
> What ultimately thwarts my installation attempts is the dependency on TeX.
> While a good thing in principle, most packaging tools do not realize that
> there is already a working TeX distribution there from another source, and
> will only accept their own - which, in the case of debian/fink, can no
> longer be postinstalled. It appears that I would have to uninstall and
> reinstall my entire pre-existing setup just to get matplotlib to work.
>
> Has anyone seen this problem before? Is there a workaround?
>
> best wishes
> Volker Blum
>
>
That is just bad packaging. TeX is not a dependency, but optional. Heck,
it isn't even listed in the "Build Requirements" page:
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/installing.html#build-requirements
Matplotlib can work just fine without TeX, you just wouldn't be able to set
usetex=True in some places.
Ben Root
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