Thank you all for your help Using "sudo" generates an error, without it everything run ok.
:~$ sudo python -c "import numpy; print numpy.__version__" Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/numpy/__init__.py", line 137, in <module> import add_newdocs File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/numpy/add_newdocs.py", line 9, in <module> from numpy.lib import add_newdoc File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/numpy/lib/__init__.py", line 13, in <module> from polynomial import * File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/numpy/lib/polynomial.py", line 17, in <module> from numpy.linalg import eigvals, lstsq File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/numpy/linalg/__init__.py", line 48, in <module> from linalg import * File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/numpy/linalg/linalg.py", line 23, in <module> from numpy.linalg import lapack_lite ImportError: libifport.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory And the other command suggested by Eric, I think matplotlib is not displayed due to it is not intalled yet, isn't it? ~$ sudo python -c "import sys; print '\n'.join(sys.path)" /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nose-0.11.0.dev_r636-py2.7.egg /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/FiPy-2.1.2-py2.7.egg /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pysparse-1.2_dev224-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages /usr/lib/python2.7 /usr/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2 /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-old /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gst-0.10 /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0 /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7 /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/libubuntuone /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntu-sso-client /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntuone-client /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntuone-control-panel /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntuone-installer /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntuone-storage-protocol /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode should I reinstall numpy? Thanks, Lucia > On 02/22/2012 04:06 PM, ava...@famaf.unc.edu.ar wrote: >> Dear users, >> I am trying to install matplotlib from source. When I run: >> sudo python setup.py install> build.out >> I got the following: >> basedirlist is: ['/usr/local', '/usr'] >> ============================================================================ >> BUILDING MATPLOTLIB >> matplotlib: 1.2.x >> python: 2.7.2+ (default, Oct 4 2011, 20:06:09) [GCC >> 4.6.1] >> platform: linux2 >> >> REQUIRED DEPENDENCIES >> numpy: no >> * You must install numpy 1.4 or later to build >> * matplotlib. >> >> But numpy is installed(/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/numpy) >> python -c "import numpy; print numpy.__version__" >> 1.6.1 >> How matplotlib could locate numpy path? > > mpl is trying to use exactly this method: import numpy. See the > check_for_numpy function() in setupext.py. > > All I can imagine is that either because of sudo, or because of the > terminal you were in when you tried to build, your sys.path was not > including the /usr/local path. > > Try: > sudo python -c "import numpy; print numpy.__version__" > > sudo python -c "import sys; print '\n'.join(sys.path)" > > The latter must include /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages. > > Eric > >> >> How this problem could be solved? >> Thanks a lot in advance. >> Lucia >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Virtualization& Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning >> Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing >> also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. >> http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Matplotlib-users mailing list >> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users