Re: [Matplotlib-users] Interactive with standard python TkAgg...

[Ivan D V. <iv...@ad...>]

On Thursday, August 11, 2011 11:29:57 Benjamin Root wrote:
> > I'm running on ubuntu 10.04 32bit, with distro package 0.99 for
> > matplotlib.  I haven't been able to find anything that helps online
> > either.
> >
> I don't remember who was hosting it, but I recall someone had a matplotlib
> v1.0.1 PPA.  I also believe that we got everything fixed for release to
> Debian (and thus Ubuntu) for the upcoming Ubuntu.  Anybody know where that
> PPA is?

you can use any one of the PPAs listed here:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas?name_filter=matplotlib

but i instead use the following procedure to set up all of PyLab on Ubuntu  11.04:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/zeromq
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pyside
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get build-dep python-numpy python-scipy matplotlib ipython pyzmq
$ sudo apt-get install python-pyside
$ ln -s /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PySide /opt/adverplex/lib/python2.7/site-packages/
$ pip install --upgrade numpy scipy ipython pyzmq
$ pip install 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.0.1/matplotlib-1.0.1.tar.gz

this has the benefit of being compatible with any virtual environment.  prepend ``sudo `` to the pip 
commands if your Python environment is owned by root.