Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to use X11, not the "Python" app, on Mac OS X?

2008-04-16 Thread Jeremy Hill
On 17 Apr 2008, at 4:39 am, Jed Frechette wrote: > Any reason you're manually installing from source rather than using > the Fink > packages? Fink's matplotlib is still at 0.90 but the latest > versions of all > the other packages you want are in Fink. Note that you will need to > enable > F

Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to use X11, not the "Python" app, on Mac OS X?

2008-04-16 Thread Jed Frechette
Jeremy Hill-2 wrote: > > ... > I tried installing python25 via fink (BTW, I'm using Tiger, not > Leopard), and then installing the latest ipython, numpy, scipy and > matplotlib using the naive 'python setup.py build; sudo python > setup.py install' method on top of that. > ... > Any reas

Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to use X11, not the "Python" app, on Mac OS X?

2008-04-16 Thread Jeremy Hill
Thanks, Nadia, for the offline info. I've got to admit, installing something as big and dependency-ridden as Python by hand would probably take things way beyond my level. I tried installing python25 via fink (BTW, I'm using Tiger, not Leopard), and then installing the latest ipython, numpy,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to use X11, not the "Python" app, on Mac OS X?

2008-04-16 Thread Nadia Dencheva
You need X11 based versions of Tcl/Tk and Python. I believe these are available through fink (or used to be), I build them from source. And then you can build matplotlib linking to these libraries (after tweaking setupext.py). It's somewhat involved but doable, actually you have to have a really

[Matplotlib-users] how to use X11, not the "Python" app, on Mac OS X?

2008-04-16 Thread Jeremy Hill
Hello matplotlib-users, I've just managed to get numpy, scipy, ipython and matplotlib running under ActivePython 2.5 on my Intel Mac. But I'd like matplotlib to use just X11, and not the Aqua-wrapped thing with the rocket icon (app name "Python"): I want to be able to ssh -X into my mac, ru