Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib installation issues

[Michael D. <md...@st...>]

On 08/31/2013 12:24 PM, Goyo wrote:
> 2013/8/31 Dino Bektešević <lj...@gm...>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> After a little mishap from ubuntu 12.04 after which I reinstalled the
>> OS, on this fresh install I did:
>>
>>> sudo apt-get install python-numpy python-scipy python-matplotlib ipython ipython-notebook python-pandas python-sympy python-nose
>> as per scipy stack installation instructions and
>> everything went more or less as it should have no errors reported
>> during installation that I saw. Keep in mind the entire install like
>> this had ~500MB or so and I wasn't always paying attention.
>> I ran python, and did numpy.test(), returned:
>>> Ran 3161 tests in 50.667s
>>> OK (KNOWNFAIL=3, SKIP=4)
>>> <nose.result.TextTestResult run=3161 errors=0 failures=0>
>> did scipy.test(), returned:
>>> Ran 3780 tests in 74.809s
>>> FAILED (KNOWNFAIL=11, SKIP=13, failures=2)
>>> <nose.result.TextTestResult run=3780 errors=0 failures=2>
>> I send a mail to scipy mailing list couple of days ago, but still no answer,
>> if someone knows how "bad" those 2 failures are please share and then
>> did matplotlib.test() which was disasterous:
>>> Ran 1065 tests in 284.956s
>>> FAILED (KNOWNFAIL=267, errors=772)
> With mpl 1.3.0 (packaged for Raring by Thomas Kluyver):
>
> Ran 1465 tests in 402.499s
> FAILED (KNOWNFAIL=1, SKIP=5, errors=1331)
>
> But matplotlib itself is working pretty well. The output is full with
> error messages like:
>
> IOError: Baseline image
> '/home/goyo/result_images/test_triangulation/tripcolor1-expected.svg'
> does not exist.
>
> It maybe that distro packages do not ship with baseline images. Looks
> sensible to me since there must be an awful lot of them and most users
> do not need them.

That's correct.  We could probably do a better job reporting that to the 
user, though.  Would you mind creating an issue for that?

Mike