Having trouble installing matplotlib on Mac OS X Lion

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Having trouble installing matplotlib on Mac OS X Lion
Hi all,

I had matplotlib-0.99.1.1 working with Python 2.6 on OS X v10.6(Snow Leopard). Today I upgraded to Lion (v10.7) and matplotlib had disappeared. Lion ships with Apple’s version of Python 2.7. Even when I look back at Python 2.6 in the /System/Library/Frameworks/Python/Version/Python2.6, it seems to be gone. OK, I thought I would install matplotlib-1.0.1 in Python 2.7 using easy_install. It failed when unable to find the headers for numpy (terminal output below). Lion comes with numpy 1.5.1 pre-installed. I tried re-installing numpy but that didn’t help so now I’m stuck.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

c4-2c-3-1-f0-3a:matplotlib-1.0.1 williamcarithers$ sudo easy_install matplotlib

Searching for matplotlib

Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/matplotlib/

Reading http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net

Reading https://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.0.1/

Reading http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80706&package_id=82474

Reading http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80706

Reading https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80706&package_id=82474

Reading https://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-0.99.1/

Reading https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80706&package_id=278194

Reading https://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-0.99.3/

Reading https://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.0

Best match: matplotlib 1.0.1

Downloading http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.0.1/matplotlib-1.0.1.tar.gz/download

Processing matplotlib-1.0.1.tar.gz

Running matplotlib-1.0.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-OI8zuY/matplotlib-1.0.1/egg-dist-tmp-3EXRXm

basedirlist is: []

···

============================================================================

BUILDING MATPLOTLIB

        matplotlib: 1.0.1

            python: 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Jun 16 2011, 16:59:05)  [GCC

                    4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build

                    2335.15.00)]

          platform: darwin

REQUIRED DEPENDENCIES

             numpy: 1.5.1

                    * Could not find the headers for numpy.  You may

                    * need to install the development package.

error: Setup script exited with 1

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Hello William - did you manage to solve this problem without resorting to
building from source?

Thanks!

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Hi,

   Have you tried the EPD python installation, it works for me and includes
SciPY/Numpy/ etc.

Cheers,
Joe

William Carithers wrote:

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Hi all,

I had matplotlib-0.99.1.1 working with Python 2.6 on OS X v10.6(Snow
Leopard). Today I upgraded to Lion (v10.7) and matplotlib had disappeared.
Lion ships with Apple¹s version of Python 2.7. Even when I look back at
Python 2.6 in the /System/Library/Frameworks/Python/Version/Python2.6, it
seems to be gone. OK, I thought I would install matplotlib-1.0.1 in Python
2.7 using easy_install. It failed when unable to find the headers for
numpy
(terminal output below). Lion comes with numpy 1.5.1 pre-installed. I
tried
re-installing numpy but that didn¹t help so now I¹m stuck.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

c4-2c-3-1-f0-3a:matplotlib-1.0.1 williamcarithers$ sudo easy_install
matplotlib
Searching for matplotlib
Reading Links for matplotlib
Reading http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net
Reading
https://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.0.
1/
Reading
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80706&package_id=82474
Reading matplotlib - Browse Files at SourceForge.net
Reading
matplotlib - Browse Files at SourceForge.net
4
Reading
matplotlib - Browse /matplotlib/matplotlib-0.99 at SourceForge.net
.1/
Reading
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80706&package_id=2781
94
Reading
matplotlib - Browse /matplotlib/matplotlib-0.99 at SourceForge.net
.3/
Reading
https://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.0
Best match: matplotlib 1.0.1
Downloading
matplotlib - Browse /matplotlib/matplotlib-1.0.1 at SourceForge.net
/matplotlib-1.0.1.tar.gz/download
Processing matplotlib-1.0.1.tar.gz
Running matplotlib-1.0.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
/tmp/easy_install-OI8zuY/matplotlib-1.0.1/egg-dist-tmp-3EXRXm
basedirlist is:

BUILDING MATPLOTLIB
            matplotlib: 1.0.1
                python: 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Jun 16 2011, 16:59:05) [GCC
                        4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build
                        2335.15.00)]
              platform: darwin

REQUIRED DEPENDENCIES
                 numpy: 1.5.1
                        * Could not find the headers for numpy. You may
                        * need to install the development package.
error: Setup script exited with 1

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