[Matplotlib-users] matplotlib redhat 7.3 / as3.0

[Darrell S. <da...@cl...>]

Hi,

first time user, first time installer...

Is there a howto for matplotlib installation on redhat 7.3/as2.1 & as3.0?

I'm trying to install matplotlib on these platforms and am running into 
a seemingly endless list of dependancies for python2.2, numarray:

just on the 7.3 side,
  - freetype >= 2.1.7 is needed, but rh has 2.0.9-2.
  - pygtk >= 1.99.16 needed, rh has 1.99.8-7.
  - pygtk 2.2.0 needs glib >= 2.2.0, redhat has 1.2.10-5,
  - pygtk 1.99.16 compiles, but I get error "ImportError: 
/usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 undefinded symbol: FT_Seek_Stream", which 
I haven't tracked down just yet...
  - the line "inf = infty = Infinity = _ieee.inf" in na_imports.py fails 
to find 'inf' in '_ieee', but commenting it out works fine.
  - While the install webpage says I only need freetype,libpng,zlib to 
compile, I get runtime complaints on import of matplotlib.matlab * 
(running simple_plot.py) about missing image libraries if I don't turn 
the BUILD_IMAGE flag on.


This is all way too difficult me as I'm not looking forward to upgrading 
so many packages across our production machines...am I missing something 
obvious?  Perhaps an older version of matplotlib known to work on this 
redhat?  I'm just using it for simple time-series plots, real-time and 
to some file (png, gif, ps, pdf...).


thanks in advance for any help,

Darrell