Hi all,
The "Installing" page on the matplotlib website says: "You
probably don't need to compile matplotlib unless you want to or work
on an obscure platform. There are binary builds for Windows, OS X and
many major linux distributions; see below".
When I scrol below, under "Linux", I see
"To build all the backends on a binary linux distro such as redhat,
you need to install a number of the devel libs (and whatever
dependencies they require), I suggest
matplotlib core: zlib, zlib-devel, libpng, libpng-devel, freetype,
freetype-devel, freetype-utils
gtk/gtkagg backend: gtk2-devel, gtk+-devel, pygtk2, glib-devel,
pygtk2-devel, gnome-libs-devel, pygtk2-libglade
tk backend: tcl, tk, tkinter
wx/wxagg backends - the wxpython rpms from wxpython"
This doesn't tell me where to find a matplotlib rpm file, just a list
of the other stuff that I need to make sure my redhat system already
has (btw, I thought that was what a good rpm is supposed to do
anyway?)
I've searched the Centos repository and tried to find one using rpmfind. Nada.
I've already writeen seveal python programs which use matplotlib and
run on Windows. But trying to get matplotlib installed on redhat
(which dos not have a more modern package manager such as apt or yum,
but is my employer's choice
of Linux distros) -- that is starting to look like a major project.
I tried building from the sources once and somehow got confused or took a wrong
turn working through the list of all the preqrequisite packages.
If anyone has done this, and can offer any advise or suggestions, I
would appreciate it.
Thanks alot,
Dennis Newbold
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