Re: [Matplotlib-users] Installing the debian package

[Steve S. <el...@gm...>]

Hi

Well I'm running a 2.6.11 testing kernel (due to some hardware problems
under 2.6.8) but I fetch all my software (via apt-get) from the stable
archives. I'm no Debian expert but I know that apt-get and dpkg perform
good dependency checking when you install a .deb and should tell you if
some required packages are too old. I had no problems with the two
packages and my mpl is running fine. Note that I installed

libpixman1_0.1.5-1_i386.deb
libcairo1_0.4.0-1_i386.deb

but I guess that the newer versions now available should also do the job.

cheers,
steve


Noel O'Boyle wrote:
> Thanks Steve,
> I prefer to use .debs where possible. Is it risky to use packages from
> unstable? I don't want to return to an rpm nightmare.
> 
> Regards,
> Noel
> 
> On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 11:19 +0200, Steve Schmerler wrote:
> 
>>Noel O'Boyle wrote:
>>
>>>Is the debian package for matplotlib broken??
>>>
>>>I found the following error when trying to install the debian package
>>>for matplotlib as per the instructions at the bottom of
>>>http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/installing.html.
>>>
>>>apt-get install python-matplotlib python-matplotlib-doc
>>>"The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>>  python-matplotlib: Depends: python2.3-matplotlib (= 0.82-1) but it is
>>>not going to be installed
>>>E: Broken packages"
>>>
>>>I then tried apt-get install python2.3-matplotlib:
>>>"The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>>  python2.3-matplotlib: Depends: libcairo1 but it is not installable
>>>E: Broken packages"
>>>
>>>I then tried apt-get install libcairo1:
>>>"Package libcairo1 is not available, but is referred to by another
>>>package.
>>>This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
>>>is only available from another source
>>>E: Package libcairo1 has no installation candidate"
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Noel
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>Hi
>>
>>Seems that you have compiled mpl yourself by now. Anyway if you (or 
>>others) are still interested in installing the .debs from 
>>http://anakonda.altervista.org:
>>
>>I had to download and install libpixman1*.deb and libcairo1*.deb from 
>>debian.org (apt-get didn't find any of these since I'm running a sarge 
>>stable). Meanwhile there is a
>>libcairo2_1.0.0-2_i386.deb in unstable and a ibpixman1_0.1.6-1_i386.deb 
>>in testing.
>>
>>After installing these I could do
>>
>>apt-get install python2.3-matplotlib python-matplotlib-data 
>>python-matplotlib-doc
>>
>>cheers,
>>steve
> 
>