Re: [Matplotlib-users] starting up

[Andrew S. <str...@as...>]

Maarten de Vries wrote:

>Hello,
>The best wishes for the new year to all of you!
>I am completely new to this part of the game. I have worked with Python and 
>Matlab and the matplotlib appears to be an excellent tool for my demands, but 
>I cannot get the thing working. I have spend two days to try to find my own 
>way out of it, but that didn't work, so I will ask your help.
>I have a SuSE Linux 9.2 i386 installation. I have changed the prefix and 
>exec-prefix in setupext.py to read '/usr' and start the build routine to get:
>maarten@cleopatra:~/Documents/Downloads/matplotlib-0.70.1> python setup.py 
>build
>sh: pkg-config: command not found
>sh: pkg-config: command not found
>sh: pkg-config: command not found
>sh: pkg-config: command not found
>  
>
<snipped further output>

I'd install pkg-config before going any further.  I believe it will find 
dependencies automatically without relying on you to enter them.  
Unfortunately, I have no idea how to install it on SuSE.

Your later errors indicate problems finding the GTK header files, which 
I think pkg-config will help with.  (At least once you install them, too!)

Cheers!
Andrew