[Matplotlib-users] Fwd: Matplotlib-users Digest, Vol 52, Issue 26

[jules h. <hu...@ha...>]

Virgil

The scheme illustrated below actually does work.

> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:55:43 -1000
> From: Eric Firing <ef...@ha...>
> Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib on Ubuntu 10.04 (64-bit)
> To: mat...@li...
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> On 09/13/2010 12:08 PM, Virgil Stokes wrote:
>> >   On 2010-09-13 21:55, Benjamin Root wrote:
>>> >> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Virgil Stokes <vs...@it...
>>> >> <mailto:vs...@it...>> wrote:
>>> >>


> If you would like up-to-date versions of both numpy and matplotlib, then
> you can either find and install the *dev packages individually, or do
> something like this:
>
> sudo apt-get build-dep python-matplotlib
> sudo apt-get remove python
                       ^^^^^^^

No, that is probably supposed to be

	sudo apt-get remove numpy

>
> Now untar your numpy, go in, build and install:
>
> setup.py build
> sudo setup.py install
>
> And last, do the same for matplotlib, preferably with a checkout from
> svn.  Some bugs have been fixed since the last release.
>
> Before all of this, you might do well to uninstall whatever versions or
> parts of numpy and matplotlib had been installed via your previous efforts.
>
 >[snip]
 >
 > Eric

You can tell whether you have any leftover pieces of numpy or matplotlib
from the *.deb files by looking in /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages
for "numpy" or "matplotlib".

Eric, the script was scrubbed.  Does it land somewhere else?

Jules

(Jules Hummon/Univ. Hawaii/physical oceanography)