[Matplotlib-users] Installing on a Fink-free OS-X

[Chris B. <Chr...@no...>]

Hi all,

I'm working on installing matplotlib on a fink-free OS-X. When I have it 
all working, I'll post the methodology here.

I've got it all compiled and installed, but when I run it, I get:

Python 2.3 (#1, Sep 13 2003, 00:49:11)
[GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1495)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import pylab
Could not open font file /Library/Fonts/NISC18030.ttf
No module named pygtk
PyGTK version 1.99.16 or greater is required to run the GTK Matplotlib 
backends

This makes sense, as I don't have PyGTK, However, I would have thought 
that setup.py would have figured that out, and not tried to build it. At 
this point, all I need is to generate images with the AGG back-end, so 
why is it trying to run PyGTK on import?

If I do:
 >>> import matplotlib
 >>> matplotlib.use('Agg')
 >>> import pylab

Then it works OK.

It would be nice to just do an "import pylab", however.

-Chris







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