Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib 0.85 on python 2.4 installation problem : "cannot find tcl/tk headers. giving up."

[Ryan K. <rya...@gm...>]

I am running matplotlib and scipy on ubuntu and it really was pretty
straight forward to install.

But you may be tied to SUSE for other reasons or the idea of a
complete reinstall may be completely unacceptable.

ATLAS and BLAS and LAPACK are all available as precompiled packages on ubun=
tu.

Ryan

On 11/23/05, Arnd Baecker <arn...@we...> wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> installation issues can be frustrating - most of us have been
> through what you encounter at the momemt (at least once ;-).
> Don't give up! Some ideas below (I will also send you my
> full install notes off-list - see also:
> http://www.scipy.org/mailinglists/mailman?fn=3Dscipy-dev/2005-November/00=
3949.html
> )
>
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Eric Emsellem wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > trying to install matplotlib 0.85 on python 2.4 (Suse 10.0), I get :
> >
> > =3D=3D=3D> cannot find tcl/tk headers. giving up.
> >
> > this is annoying and I cannot find much on the web to help me there. I
> > have checked my libraries and soft (including the "devel") and think I
> > have everything updated right.
> >
> > It is probably a simple pb, so if anybody has a  hint there;
>
> In my notes for the installation under SUSE 10.0 I have:
>
> In setupext.py change:
>
> def find_tcltk():
>
>       [...]
>
>       #o.tk_inc=3D"/usr/include/"
>       o.tcl_inc=3D"/usr/include/"
>
>       if not os.path.exists(o.tcl_inc):
>           print 'cannot find tcl/tk headers. giving up.'
>           sys.exit()
>   return o
>
> Not sure if this will help you.
>
> > thanks in advance.
> >
> > Eric
> > P.S.: by the way, upgrading my Linux (Suse 10.0) and therefore getting
> > python 2.4, I have now to reinstall everything from scratch (python
> > modules) and this is a REAL pain (for example ATLAS which takes ages an=
d
> > so on).
>
> ATLAS is surely the worst. Does any SUSE expert know,
> whether there are ATLAS packages available?
>
> For downloads of precompiled ATLAS see:
>   http://www.scipy.org/download/atlasbinaries/linux/
>
>
> > It means for me that I cannot work before having all back to
> > normal (all modules working such as ppgplot, gnuplot-py, Numeric,
> > numarray, Scipy, matplotlib, etc, etc). And I am not even sure this wil=
l
> > compile with Python 2.4. Anybody knows a way out of this?
>
> Compilation of all these (don't know about ppgplot) worked
> fine for me on SUSE 10.0 (even with 64 Bit, with kind help from the
> sciy mailing list) and does not take too long.
>
> Another option is too choose debian (or ubuntu, ...) as distribution.
> If you want to have up-to-date matplotlib, you can either compile
> them yourself or try use use some of the pre-built ones
> (eg. by John for ubuntu). Also for current scipy you will
> have to install it yourself.
> But ATLAS and basically anything else you might need is
> avaible as .deb.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Arnd
>
>
>
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