Re: [Matplotlib-users] installing matplotlib on ubuntu

[Charlie M. <cw...@gm...>]

Do you have the package "python-gtk2-dev" installed?  You will need
this for the pygtk headers.  Wx is a pain at the moment, but if you
are happy with gtk you should have no problems on ubuntu.

On 10/27/05, Christian Meesters <mee...@un...> wrote:
> Hi Ryan,
>
> Thanks, but I too run into problems:
> Doing python setup.py build is fine until:
> <snip>
> src/_na_backend_gdk.c:12:25: error: pygtk/pygtk.h: No such file or
> directory
> src/_na_backend_gdk.c: In function 'pixbuf_get_pixels_array':
> src/_na_backend_gdk.c:31: error: 'PyGObject' undeclared (first use in
> this function)
> src/_na_backend_gdk.c:31: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported
> only once
> src/_na_backend_gdk.c:31: error: for each function it appears in.)
> src/_na_backend_gdk.c:31: error: 'py_pixbuf' undeclared (first use in
> this function)
> src/_na_backend_gdk.c:32: error: 'GdkPixbuf' undeclared (first use in
> this function)
> src/_na_backend_gdk.c:32: error: 'gdk_pixbuf' undeclared (first use in
> this function)
> src/_na_backend_gdk.c:40: warning: implicit declaration of function
> 'GDK_PIXBUF'
> src/_na_backend_gdk.c:46: warning: implicit declaration of function
> 'gdk_pixbuf_get_height'
> src/_na_backend_gdk.c:47: warning: implicit declaration of function
> 'gdk_pixbuf_get_width'
> src/_na_backend_gdk.c:48: warning: implicit declaration of function
> 'gdk_pixbuf_get_has_alpha'
> src/_na_backend_gdk.c:52: warning: implicit declaration of function
> 'gdk_pixbuf_get_pixels'
> src/_na_backend_gdk.c:52: warning: cast to pointer from integer of
> different size
> src/_na_backend_gdk.c:56: warning: implicit declaration of function
> 'gdk_pixbuf_get_rowstride'
> src/_na_backend_gdk.c: In function 'init_na_backend_gdk':
> src/_na_backend_gdk.c:84: warning: implicit declaration of function
> 'init_pygtk'
> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
>
> Apparently the autodetection fails. Then I disabled all backends (except
> for Agg, WX, WXAgg, which I want to use) and next time I tried setup.py
> build:
>
> WXAgg's accelerator requires `wx-config'.
>
> The `wx-config' executable could not be located in any directory of the
> PATH
> environment variable.  If it is in some other location or has some other
> name,
> set the WX_CONFIG environment variable to the full path of the
> executable.
>
> Sounds familiar, doesn't it? ;-)
>
> Now, I tried to read on and in the end I am - frankly - completely
> confused. Since I can't compile (I tried some other tweaks) ... is
> somebody able to compile installation instructions? It appears that the
> part on matplotlib's web page isn't up to date (how to build, the issue
> with the debian's package, possibly other problems yet not seen by me?).
> I would be willing to test everything shown to me and summarize this.
> (Alas, I don't know how to build packages myself yet and I fear I won't
> have the time to do anything quickly.)
>
> Cheers,
> Christian
>
>
>
>
>
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