Python Distribution with matplotlib

Hello,

today I tried to install mpl in my local home directory at work. This
debian distribution is very old and I had to compile for my own.

But I failed to compile pygtk (special cairo and pango) as a dependency
for mpl. So I have two questions:

1. Does you have an advice to compile mpl with minimal dependencies?

2. Does anybody know a good python dirstibution including mpl?

Thanks,

  Friedrich

Friedrich Hagedorn wrote:

Hello,

today I tried to install mpl in my local home directory at work. This
debian distribution is very old and I had to compile for my own.

But I failed to compile pygtk (special cairo and pango) as a dependency
for mpl. So I have two questions:

1. Does you have an advice to compile mpl with minimal dependencies?
  

You can copy "setup.cfg.template" to "setup.cfg" and then edit the [gui] section to disable certain GUIs. You will need at least one GUI -- TkAgg is probably going to be the easiest to get working on an older system. You will need to have Tkinter and the Tcl/Tk development headers installed, however.

2. Does anybody know a good python dirstibution including mpl?
  

Enthought has one, but I have no experience with it.

Cheers,
Mike

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Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Operations and Engineering Division
Space Telescope Science Institute
Operated by AURA for NASA

It might be worth keeping an eye on Python(x,y). It doesn't have a linux
installer yet, but it looks like Pierre is working on it.

Darren

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On Thursday 03 July 2008 02:28:47 pm Michael Droettboom wrote:

Friedrich Hagedorn wrote:
> Hello,
>
> today I tried to install mpl in my local home directory at work. This
> debian distribution is very old and I had to compile for my own.
>
> But I failed to compile pygtk (special cairo and pango) as a dependency
> for mpl. So I have two questions:
>
> 1. Does you have an advice to compile mpl with minimal dependencies?

You can copy "setup.cfg.template" to "setup.cfg" and then edit the [gui]
section to disable certain GUIs. You will need at least one GUI --
TkAgg is probably going to be the easiest to get working on an older
system. You will need to have Tkinter and the Tcl/Tk development
headers installed, however.

> 2. Does anybody know a good python dirstibution including mpl?

Enthought has one, but I have no experience with it.