Thanks -- I will try that. I'm finding, as I work through all of this, that some of the Python add-on packages (while excellent) are not trivial to install.
T. Davis On Dec 10, 7:17 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:10 PM, TDavis <cistim...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, this is a follow-up to my original posting. > > > It turns out that the problem with TkAgg in 'matplotlib' isn't really > > a sage-specific issue. It is more a problem with the 'matplotlib' > > installation scripts. > > > I tried a clean install of 'matplotlib' within a clean, stand-alone > > Python 2.6 installation. I did this completely outside 'sage'. I had > > exactly the same issue with TkAgg. The problem is that my system has > > Tcl and Tk installed in a non-standard place. The python installation > > scripts for 'matplotlib' couldn't find them, and looked in a hard- > > coded location as a last act of desperation. I went into one of the > > setup python scripts for 'matplotlib' and changed the two lines which > > had hard-coded locations for Tcl and Tk, respectively. Once I did > > that, TkAgg built cleanly and my 'matplotlib' build/install went > > fine. I think the same thing would probably work inside sage if one > > is willing to do some hand editing. > > > In my opinion, the problem is the inflexible installation process for > > 'matplotlib'. Couldn't the python setup scripts be given at least one > > additional option that would allow the user to specify the locations > > of Tcl and Tk? > > I strongly encourage you to post to the excellent matplotlib mailing > list about this issue. > > -- William -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
