This doesn't "feel" like a basemap/matplotlib problem. Something seems very
wrong with your environment. You aren't having any problems with
installing/upgrading other packages the same way?
Could you try a fresh virtual environment, perhaps?
Ben Root
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Remo Goetschi <s...@libecciu.ch> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> It seems that installing basemap through
> pip install basemap --allow-external basemap --allow-unverified basemap
> fails with Matplotlib 1.4, both on Python 2.7 and 3.4. This used to work
> without problems.
> I attached the Python 2.7 and 3.4 tracebacks below.
> Does anybody have an idea on how to fix this?
>
> Operating system: Ubuntu 14.04, 64 bit.
>
> Cheers,
> Remo
>
>
> Python 3 error:
>
> Cleaning up...
> Removing temporary dir /home/rg/venv_all_py3/build...
> Command /home/rg/venv_all_py3/bin/python3 -c "import setuptools,
>
> tokenize;__file__='/home/rg/venv_all_py3/build/basemap/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize,
> 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__,
> 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-9ae5z_xw-record/install-record.txt
> --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers
> /home/rg/venv_all_py3/include/site/python3.4 failed with error code 1 in
> /home/rg/venv_all_py3/build/basemap
> Exception information:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File
> "/home/rg/venv_all_py3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py",
> line 122, in main
> status = self.run(options, args)
> File
>
> "/home/rg/venv_all_py3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py",
> line 283, in run
> requirement_set.install(install_options, global_options,
> root=options.root_path)
> File "/home/rg/venv_all_py3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pip/req.py",
> line 1435, in install
> requirement.install(install_options, global_options, *args, **kwargs)
> File "/home/rg/venv_all_py3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pip/req.py",
> line 706, in install
> cwd=self.source_dir, filter_stdout=self._filter_install,
> show_stdout=False)
> File "/home/rg/venv_all_py3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pip/util.py",
> line 697, in call_subprocess
> % (command_desc, proc.returncode, cwd))
> pip.exceptions.InstallationError: Command
> /home/rg/venv_all_py3/bin/python3 -c "import setuptools,
>
> tokenize;__file__='/home/rg/venv_all_py3/build/basemap/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize,
> 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__,
> 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-9ae5z_xw-record/install-record.txt
> --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers
> /home/rg/venv_all_py3/include/site/python3.4 failed with error code 1 in
> /home/rg/venv_all_py3/build/basemap
>
> Python 2.7 error:
>
> Cleaning up...
> Command /home/rg/venv_all/bin/python -c "import setuptools,
>
> tokenize;__file__='/home/rg/venv_all/build/basemap/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize,
> 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__,
> 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-gtWsT6-record/install-record.txt
> --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers
> /home/rg/venv_all/include/site/python2.7 failed with error code 1 in
> /home/rg/venv_all/build/basemap
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/home/rg/venv_all/bin/pip", line 11, in <module>
> sys.exit(main())
> File
> "/home/rg/venv_all/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/__init__.py",
> line 185, in main
> return command.main(cmd_args)
> File
> "/home/rg/venv_all/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py",
> line
> 161, in main
> text = '\n'.join(complete_log)
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 59:
> ordinal not in range(128)
>
>
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