Re: [Matplotlib-users] Shared Installtion

[LUK S. <shu...@po...>]

Jean-Baptiste Cazier wrote:
> Sæl !
> 
> 
> I am trying to keep up  with the versions of matplotlib by sucessively installing them. 
> However I have to install it on many workstations that share folders over the network
> 
> I would like to be able to install matplotlib into such a folder to avoid installing it every time on each machine, but only once
> It works fine with Numeric and other packages, but not with matplotlib:
> 
>  - I install matplotlib on my own workstation.
>  - I copied recursively the folder  /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/matplotlib into /home/stat/Pygtk/matplotlib
>  - And then in my program I have added the location of the library to my path:
> sys.path.append("/home/stat/Pygtk/matplotlib")
> 
> But I get the error message
> [lws11] ~/devel/novi $  novi.py -m map  mixed.test.header.out
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./novi.py", line 19, in ?
>     import matplotlib.matlab as Plot
>   File "/home/stat/Pygtk/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 225, in ?
>     defaultParams = {
>   File "/home/stat/Pygtk/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 154, in get_data_path
>     raise RuntimeError('Could not find the matplotlib data files')
> RuntimeError: Could not find the matplotlib data files
> 
> 
> Which other folder do I need to install or set a path to ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Kveðja
> 
> Jean-Baptiste
> 

Hello,

You may have to set the MATPLOTLIBDATA environmental variable to where 
you store the data (fonts etc) if you install in a non-default location.

Regards,
ST