Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problem with pyplot under Linux Ubuntu Intrepid

2009-01-13 Thread Mauro Cavalcanti
Dear Sandro, First of all, I apologize for the delay in replying -- yesterday was already late night here and I also had to fight (???) a kernel panic in my Linux box the cause of which is not yet clear (I also had it under Ubuntu Hardy and now it appeared in Intrepid -- under Hardy, I

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problem with pyplot under Linux Ubuntu Intrepid

2009-01-13 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 13:20, Mauro Cavalcanti mauro...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sandro, First of all, I apologize for the delay in replying -- yesterday was already late night here and I also had to fight (???) a kernel panic in my Linux box the cause of which is not yet clear (I also had it

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problem with pyplot under Linux Ubuntu Intrepid

2009-01-13 Thread Mauro Cavalcanti
Dear Sandro, After sending you the previous message, I just decided to try one little thing: I used easy_install -U matplotlib and then the latest version (0.98.5.2) was correctly retrieved from the SF repository and properly installed (before followed the instructions you provided yesterday,

[Matplotlib-users] Problem with pyplot under Linux Ubuntu Intrepid

2009-01-12 Thread Mauro Cavalcanti
Dear ALL, I just found the following error when trying to run a very simple test MPL/Basemap script under Ubuntu Linux Intrepid. This does *not* happen when not importing MPL pyplot (for example, in a wxPython embedded app). Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problem with pyplot under Linux Ubuntu Intrepid

2009-01-12 Thread Darren Dale
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Mauro Cavalcanti mauro...@gmail.comwrote: Dear ALL, I just found the following error when trying to run a very simple test MPL/Basemap script under Ubuntu Linux Intrepid. This does *not* happen when not importing MPL pyplot (for example, in a wxPython

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problem with pyplot under Linux Ubuntu Intrepid

2009-01-12 Thread John Hunter
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Mauro Cavalcanti mauro...@gmail.com wrote: Dear ALL, I just found the following error when trying to run a very simple test MPL/Basemap script under Ubuntu Linux Intrepid. This does *not* happen when not importing MPL pyplot (for example, in a wxPython

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problem with pyplot under Linux Ubuntu Intrepid

2009-01-12 Thread Mauro Cavalcanti
Dear John Darren, Thanks for your reply -- the panic I alluded for is simply the result of three months' strain working day-by-day to develop a very large application using wxPython/MPL/Basemap under Linux, along with a RAM crash and, more recently, an upgrade form Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) to

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problem with pyplot under Linux Ubuntu Intrepid

2009-01-12 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hello Mauro, (thanks John to highlight me:) ) On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 17:50, Mauro Cavalcanti mauro...@gmail.com wrote: 3) I am running MPL 0.98.5.1, installed with Ubuntu itself. I ran sudo easy_install matplotlib in an attempt to install version 0.98.5.2, but this gave no result

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problem with pyplot under Linux Ubuntu Intrepid

2009-01-12 Thread Mauro Cavalcanti
Dear Sandro, I must say I feel truly honoured. I never expected my humble complaint would merit the attention of one of the Debian maintainters! Well, thank you very much! I will follow the directions you provided - as I understood, they will result in the creation of a deb package for the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problem with pyplot under Linux Ubuntu Intrepid

2009-01-12 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 19:52, Mauro Cavalcanti mauro...@gmail.com wrote: I must say I feel truly honoured. I never expected my humble complaint would merit the attention of one of the Debian maintainters! eheh, well, we are not some sort of gods or what: we talk to mortals now :D I will