Running matplotlib

Dear All,

I apologise if this is naive, but I am having problems with matplotlib. I downloaded it as a tar ball from SourceForge
and it all compiled and installed without any error. I have the following
setup.

Download source
  SourceForge - matplotlib-0.98.5.2.tar.gz

OS
  OpenSUSE 11.1

gcc
  gcc version 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291] (SUSE Linux)

uname -a
  Linux trevor 2.6.27.7-9-pae #1 SMP 2008-12-04 18:10:04 +0100 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

python
  Python 2.6

matplotlib
  >>> import matplotlib; print matplotlib.__version__
  0.98.5.2

I have taken the default 'matplotlibrc' from the web site and it is stored in ~/.matplotlib

The problem I have is then when I issue the following

from pylab import *

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pylab.py", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py", line 206, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl.py", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/artist.py", line 5, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/transforms.py", line 34, in <module>
ImportError: No module named _path

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated, thanks

Peter

The problem I have is then when I issue the following

>>> from pylab import *

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pylab.py", line 1, in
<module> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py",
line 206, in <module> File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl.py", line 1, in
<module> File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/artist.py", line 5, in
<module> File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/transforms.py", line 34,
in <module> ImportError: No module named _path

I have resolved it. The problem was the protection on the .so files. They were
installed with -rwxrwx--- which I changed to -rwxrwxrwx.

I can now plot.

Peter