Re: [Matplotlib-users] installing matplotlib on ubuntu

[Ken M. <mc...@ii...>]

Christian Meesters wrote:
> I remembered that there was a recent post on installing matplotlib on
> Ubuntu.
> 
> I tried apt-get update without an error message, but running apt-get
> install python-matplotlib-jdh gives me the following output.
> 
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Package python-matplotlib-jdh 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 python-matplotlib-jdh has no installation candidate

Are you using John's CVS packages or the stable-version packages at 
anakonda.net?  It sounds like this might just be a matter of tweaking 
`/etc/apt/sources.list' appropriately, assuming we can figure out what the 
problem is.

Ken