Hello. I've installed it and it worked fine on my machine. There some
clues why it didn't work for you from these lines:

pycentral: pycentral pkginstall: not overwriting local files
pycentral pkginstall: not overwriting local files
dpkg: error processing python-matplotlib (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Python is platform independent but it needs to be byte compiled during
installation for any/all version of python that you have installed. This
package uses pycentral - one of the methods to insure that all *.py get
byte compiled into *.pyc on user computer during installation. So
pycentral was the one who ruined your post-installtion scripts.

As we see from above pycentral emmits messages: not overwriting local
files. Hmmm to me this sounds like something is in the way of python-
matplotlib, eg. manual or old instalation.

Try purging the package, and installing again.

Also I'm attaching a list of files which should be installed (dpkg -L)
all of them are installed by pycentral one way or the other therefore
check that none of them exist. Note that if you have more pythons that I
do, you should check for all /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-
packages/matplotlib/ where X.Y could be any python versions that you
might have.

Please write back to me. I love matplotlib, it's best thing EVER. Hope
you will get it to work.

On the side note. Try to remember if you did anything special with your
python installation. Or what was the sequence of last apt actions before
you started this installation of python-matplotlib. Cause it could be
reproducible under the corner case sequence that you have manage to do
(purging, porting, compiling your own modules, installing anything
outside of apt authority, enabling random ppa's, using backports etc)

Hope this helps.

** Attachment added: "List of files installed by python-matplotlib"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21484066/python-matplotlib.dpkg.list

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