Hi
Well I'm running a 2.6.11 testing kernel (due to some hardware problems
under 2.6.8) but I fetch all my software (via apt-get) from the stable
archives. I'm no Debian expert but I know that apt-get and dpkg perform
good dependency checking when you install a .deb and should tell you if
some required packages are too old. I had no problems with the two
packages and my mpl is running fine. Note that I installed
libpixman1_0.1.5-1_i386.deb
libcairo1_0.4.0-1_i386.deb
but I guess that the newer versions now available should also do the job.
cheers,
steve
Noel O'Boyle wrote:
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Thanks Steve,
I prefer to use .debs where possible. Is it risky to use packages from
unstable? I don't want to return to an rpm nightmare.Regards,
NoelOn Thu, 2005-09-08 at 11:19 +0200, Steve Schmerler wrote:
Noel O'Boyle wrote:
Is the debian package for matplotlib broken??
I found the following error when trying to install the debian package
for matplotlib as per the instructions at the bottom of
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/installing.html.apt-get install python-matplotlib python-matplotlib-doc
"The following packages have unmet dependencies:
python-matplotlib: Depends: python2.3-matplotlib (= 0.82-1) but it is
not going to be installed
E: Broken packages"I then tried apt-get install python2.3-matplotlib:
"The following packages have unmet dependencies:
python2.3-matplotlib: Depends: libcairo1 but it is not installable
E: Broken packages"I then tried apt-get install libcairo1:
"Package libcairo1 is not available, but is referred to by another
package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package libcairo1 has no installation candidate"Regards,
NoelHi
Seems that you have compiled mpl yourself by now. Anyway if you (or others) are still interested in installing the .debs from http://anakonda.altervista.org:
I had to download and install libpixman1*.deb and libcairo1*.deb from debian.org (apt-get didn't find any of these since I'm running a sarge stable). Meanwhile there is a
libcairo2_1.0.0-2_i386.deb in unstable and a ibpixman1_0.1.6-1_i386.deb in testing.After installing these I could do
apt-get install python2.3-matplotlib python-matplotlib-data python-matplotlib-doc
cheers,
steve