[Matplotlib-users] Experience installing Matplotlib

[Gary R. <ga...@em...>]

Hi,
I just wanted to mention that I had a lot of trouble installing Matplotlib on my Windows system. When you know what to do, it's easy. The main problem was that I didn't find the "Windows Users" section on <http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/backends.html> for a while. This information belongs on the <http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/installing.html> page.
Also, the advice it gives states that the GTK 2.2.4 Runtime has a "friendly windows installer". This was extremely difficult to find and given the provided link, I had assumed that there was no such installer and tried to install GTK+ manually. Eventually I found the installer here:
<http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gtk-win/>
so the current link to <http://www.pcpm.ucl.ac.be/~gustin/win32_ports/> should be changed.

I'd change the wording to a simple step-by-step guide such as:
Install the latest GTK runtime from <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gtk-win/> (currently 2.2.4.1)
Install <http://www.pcpm.ucl.ac.be/~gustin/win32_ports/binaries/pygtk-2.0.0.win32-py2.3.exe>
Install matplotlib
Add the bin and lib subdirs to the PATH
Add GDFONTPATH environment variable

Hope this helps,
Gary
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