[Pythonmac-SIG] eggs and extraction

2006-12-09 Thread belinda thom
Hi, I've installed matplotlib from http://pythonmac.org/packages/py24- fat/. Things are running finally. [Details: I ran into a problem where backend TkAgg and numerix Numeric didn't get along; to the best of my knowledge this problem is undocumented; my stuff worked w/TkAgg only after I ch

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] eggs and extraction

2006-12-09 Thread Robert Kern
belinda thom wrote: > Now I can't figure out how to access the documentation. Part of the > problem is that I'm pretty confused about what an egg is (I've > scanned easy_install and distutil related stuff, but learned little; > I'm not even sure where to look; Google often brings up content t

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] eggs and extraction

2006-12-09 Thread Robert Kern
belinda thom wrote: > I had thought perhaps: > >easy_install -editable matplotlib-0.87.7-py2.4.egg-info/ > > would do the trick, but it complains: > >error: No urls, filenames, or requirements specified (see --help) And the appropriate form for this command is the following: [src]$ ea