Re: [Matplotlib-users] Installing matplotlib

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

>>>>> "Reik" =3D=3D Reik H B=F6rger <rei...@gm...> writes:

    Reik> Hello, it's me again, I found my mistake, I specified the
    Reik> wrong path when installing pygtk. But now, I have a problem
    Reik> installing matplotlib. When I type

    Reik> python setup.py build

    Reik> it terminates with:

    Reik> Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line
    Reik> 125, in ?  try: import gtk File
    Reik> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3//lib/python2=
.3/site-
    Reik> packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 37, in ?  from _gtk
    Reik> import * RuntimeError: could not open display

    Reik> What is going wrong? I have no idea...  Thanks Reik

This is an annoying build issue that hopefully we'll resolve before
too long.  I assume you are building from the Terminal shell is OSX.
You'll need build and run matplotlib from the X terminal

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/x11/

Hope this helps,
JDH