Re: [Matplotlib-users] =?utf-8?q?pytz=2C=09dateutil_not_getting_insta?= =?utf-8?q?lled_from_svn_build?=

[Chris <lis...@ma...>]

John Hunter <jdh2358@...> writes:
> 
> On 7/17/07, Chris Fonnesbeck <listservs@...> wrote:
> > For some reason, builds from SVN dont install either pytz
> > or dateutil (at least not in the right place). Importing pylab
> > from these builds results in an import error.
> >
> This is typically caused when the install process detects that pytz
> and dateutil are already installed, and so doesn't overright them.  My
> guess is that they were available in your PYTHONPATH at install time
> but not at run time.  So at install time they are detected and not
> installed, but at run time they cannot be found.  If this is the
> solution, you need to build and run in the same environment, or blow
> away existing copies of pytz and dateutil whereever they are lurking
> and then reinstall mpl.  Use the __file__ module attr to poke around
> and see if you can find them.

Is there a way of forcing them to install? I dont mind going in and 
deleting things by hand myself, but I am trying to have a build that 
installs for almost everyone with minimum tinkering.