Remove matplotlib 0.98 in order to install 0.99 on Ubuntu

#1

Dear list,
I were trying to install matplotlib 0.99 on my ubuntu interpid, I had previously installed and extensively used the great 0.98 version.

There is not seem to be any .deb file for 0.99 on ubuntu.packages site yet, so I tried to untar and install the source file.

The installation went smoothly, and when I print the value of version from matplotlib within ipython, it says “0.99”.

However, when I try to import axes3d from matplotlib, it shouts at me that this module is disable in matplotlib 0.98 (!).

So the question is, should I uninstall 0.98 before compiling the 0.99 source or what?

I thank you for your help and all those intersting conversations running on the list.

Cheers,

Tsviki Hirsh

tsviki.hirsh@…287…

#2

Dear list,
I were trying to install matplotlib 0.99 on my ubuntu interpid, I had
previously installed and extensively used the great 0.98 version.
There is not seem to be any .deb file for 0.99 on ubuntu.packages site yet,

yes, we know and we are working on it (I'm holding this back a bit due
to other committements, and because ubuntu is in feature freeze for
the upcoming release).

so I tried to untar and install the source file.
The installation went smoothly, and when I print the value of __version__
from matplotlib within ipython, it says "0.99".
However, when I try to import axes3d from matplotlib, it shouts at me that
this module is disable in matplotlib 0.98 (!).
So the question is, should I uninstall 0.98 before compiling the 0.99 source
or what?

well, this is hardly a question for this list (I see it more for
ubuntu forums), but yes, either you remove python-matplotlib package
(it's and 'apt-get update' away to reinstall if needed), or you play
with sys.path, PYTHONPATH, and so on. For personal packages, you can
also install them into a directory in ~ (using the --root and --prefix
when setup.py install).

Regards,

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On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 11:11, Tsviki Hirsh<tsviki.hirsh@...287...> wrote:
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