Re: [Matplotlib-users] default backend on 1.2.0rc1 and master

[Alejandro W. <ale...@gm...>]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:41 AM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:
> sudo apt-get build-dep python-matplotlib
>
> It might pull in more than you really want, but it will certainly
> include gui toolkits.

If you want to avoid installing all the packages that you get with the
`apt-get build-dep pythoh-matplotlib`, the following seems to be
enough:

sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev libpng12-dev python-tk tk-dev
python-gtk2-dev

Alejandro.