Thanks to both Francesco Montesano and Benjamin Root. I have done some reading. And I have made some progress, though I am not quite where I want to be yet.
So the problem appears to be that the only backend for which I had suitable Python 3 libraries was agg. It only requires libpng, which I have. I can render a Matplotlib canvas, but it appears that the only output that agg offers is in the form of PNG files to disk. I cannot create a live window on the screen. Reading more, I realize that the way I was getting GUI output previously (with Python 2.7 and Matplotlib 1.1) was through wxPython. Unfortunately, it appears that wxPython's star is fading, and a Python 3-compatible version will not be written. In fact, wxPython hasn't released a new version in nine months. The other choices for Matplotlib GUI output on Linux appear to be through GTK, PySide, and PyQt. I am not familiar with GTK, but I know that it is widely-used. Also, GTK appears to be Python 3-compatible, and so that is where I need to go. I'm going through a trial and error process. Unfortunately, the names of the repositories in Ubuntu are not very helpful. I installed a few GTK and python-gtk related packages that I thought were relevant. On my first build attempt I got no errors, but also, I didn't get a GTKAgg backend. Upon re-reading, I saw that I should modify matplotlib's setup.cfg file to force a GTK build attempt, and to report errors if it fails. That's what it does. In the "optional backend dependencies" section I am not seeing any GTK libraries listed, even though I have installed python-gtk2-dev (2.24.0), python-gobject-2-dev (2.28.6), libgtk2.0-dev (2.24.10), libglib2.0-dev (2.32.3), python-gi-dev (3.2.2), python-gobject-dev (3.2.2), python3-gi (3.2.2), and a few DOZEN packages on which these depend. If anyone knows the way forward from here, I would appreciate your advice. Thanks again. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
