SF.net SVN: matplotlib:[8243] trunk/matplotlib/doc/users/installing.rst

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Revision: 8243
          http://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/matplotlib/?rev=8243&view=rev
Author:   dsdale
Date:     2010-04-19 18:28:54 +0000 (Mon, 19 Apr 2010)

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update installation instructions

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    trunk/matplotlib/doc/users/installing.rst

Modified: trunk/matplotlib/doc/users/installing.rst
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--- trunk/matplotlib/doc/users/installing.rst	2010-04-19 01:13:54 UTC (rev 8242)
+++ trunk/matplotlib/doc/users/installing.rst	2010-04-19 18:28:54 UTC (rev 8243)
@@ -126,7 +126,10 @@
 installing matplotlib. Windows users only need the first two (python
 and numpy) since the others are built into the matplotlib windows
 installers available for download at the sourceforge site.  If you are
-building on OSX, see :ref:`build_osx`
+building on OSX, see :ref:`build_osx`. If you are installing
+dependencies with a package manager, you may need to install the
+development packages (look for a "-dev" postfix) in addition to the
+libraries themselves.
 
 :term:`python` 2.4 (or later but not python3)
     matplotlib requires python 2.4 or later (`download <http://www.python.org/download/>`__)


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