Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib rpms for RedHat, please

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Dennis Newbold <den...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>     The "Installing" page on the matplotlib website says: "You
> probably don't need to compile matplotlib unless you want to or work
> on an obscure platform. There are binary builds for Windows, OS X and
> many major linux distributions; see below".
>
> When I scrol below, under "Linux", I see
> "To build all the backends on a binary linux distro such as redhat,
> you need to install a number of the devel libs (and whatever
> dependencies they require), I suggest
> matplotlib core: zlib, zlib-devel, libpng, libpng-devel, freetype,
> freetype-devel, freetype-utils
> gtk/gtkagg backend: gtk2-devel, gtk+-devel, pygtk2, glib-devel,
> pygtk2-devel, gnome-libs-devel, pygtk2-libglade
> tk backend: tcl, tk, tkinter
> wx/wxagg backends - the wxpython rpms from wxpython"


These instructions were written a long time ago, before matplotlib was
shipped with most  linux distributions, and are for people who want to
compile matplotlib from source.  They need to be updated.

> This doesn't tell me where to find a matplotlib rpm file, just a list
> of the other stuff that I need to make sure my redhat system already
> has (btw, I thought that was what a good rpm is supposed to do
> anyway?)

It's sually called python2.5-matplotlib or something like that.

JDH