Re: [matplotlib-devel] Debian packages for Matplotlib 0.50

[<jdh...@ac...>]

Vittorio Palmisano <re...@em...> writes:


> Hello,
> I have updated my debian packages for Matplotlib, and I put the installation
> instructions on my page: http://anakonda.altervista.org/


Hello Vittorio,

Thanks much for doing this.  I am just now taking it for a test drive
on a debian machine I have access to.

Two (possibly related) things I found surprising were the install size
(21MB!) and an ATLAS dependency.  I suspect the latter comes from a
scipy requirment, which matplotlib does not depend on.

humanos:~> sudo apt-get install python-matplotlib python-matplotlib-doc
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  atlas2-base fonttools libart-2.0-2 libg2c0 libttf2 python-gdmodule
  python-pypaint python-ttfquery python2.3-numeric python2.3-numeric-ext
  python2.3-xml
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  atlas2-base fonttools libart-2.0-2 libg2c0 libttf2 python-gdmodule
  python-matplotlib python-matplotlib-doc python-pypaint python-ttfquery
  python2.3-numeric python2.3-numeric-ext python2.3-xml
0 packages upgraded, 13 newly installed, 0 to remove and 150  not upgraded.
2 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 6099kB of archives. After unpacking 21.2MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

Is the ATLAS requirement intentional, or a vestigial dependency from
some other package in your collection?

Thanks again,
JDH