Installing the debian package

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,
Noel

On 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,
Noel

Hi

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