problems with installing basemap

Hello,

I am trying to install basemap from debian packages, but I am not able
to have it run properly.

Here are my tests:

import matplotlib as mpl
import mpl_toolkits.basemap as bm
import numpy as np
print "GEOS version: ", bm._geoslib.__geos_version__
print "basemap version: ", bm.__version__
print "numpy version: ", np.__version__
print "matplotlib version: ", mpl.__version__

map = bm.Basemap(projection='ortho', lat_0 = 50, lon_0 = -100,
              resolution = 'l', area_thresh = 1000.)
map.drawcountries()
map.fillcontinents(color = 'coral')
map.drawmapboundary()
map.drawmeridians(np.arange(0, 360, 30))
map.drawparallels(np.arange(-90, 90, 30))
plt.show()

gives:
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/mpl_toolkits/__init__.py:2: UserWarning:
Module dap was already imported from None, but
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages is being added to sys.path
  __import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)
GEOS version: 3.3.1-CAPI-1.7.1
basemap version: 1.0.2
numpy version: 1.5.1
matplotlib version: 1.1.0
GEOS_ERROR: TopologyException: found non-noded intersection between
LINESTRING (170.007 -0.00578472, 170.021 -0.0173561) and LINESTRING
(349.986 -0.0115701, -10 0) at 170.007 -0.00578549
Erreur de segmentation

Thanks for your help,

Lazlo
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