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

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

On Thursday, August 11, 2011 14:20:22 you wrote:
> 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/

sorry, this line should be:
$ ln -s /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PySide {env}/lib/python2.7/site-packages/

where {env} is the location of your virtual environment.  my company's standard environment happens to be 
at /opt/adverplex.

> $ 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.