Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basemap installation question

[Jeff W. <js...@fa...>]

Fought, Richard wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to set up matplotlib with basemap on CentOS 4.6 with python
> 2.3.4
>
> I installed setuptools 0.6c7, then numpy 1.0.4, then matplotlib
> 0.91.1_r0, then basemap 0.9.9 (building and installing the GEOS library
> from source).  When I try to run the example simpletest.py script, I get
> the following message:
>
> /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib-0.91.1_r0-py2.3-linux-i686.e
> gg/pytz/__init__.py:29: UserWarning: Module matplotlib was already
> imported from
> /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib-0.91.1_r0-py2.3-linux-i686.e
> gg/matplotlib/__init__.pyc, but
> /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/basemap-0.9.9-py2.3-linux-i686.egg is
> being added to sys.path
>   from pkg_resources import resource_stream
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "simpletest.py", line 1, in ?
>     from matplotlib.toolkits.basemap import Basemap
> ImportError: No module named basemap
>
> Any ideas what might have gone wrong?  I was expecting basemap to
> install under /site-packages/matplotlib/toolkits but it installed under
> a site-package of it's own.
>
> Thanks,
> Rich
>   

Rich:  Unfortunately, I've no idea what's wrong and don't have 2.3 to 
test on.  The install process for 2.3 is a bit different in that it uses 
setuptools to substitute for features in distutils that didn't appear 
until python 2.4.  Can you easily upgrade to 2.4? If not, can you send a 
listing of  site-packages/matplotlib/toolkits to me, off-list?

-Jeff

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