Dear Sandro, I must say I feel truly honoured. I never expected my humble complaint would merit the attention of one of the Debian maintainters!
Well, thank you very much! I will follow the directions you provided - as I understood, they will result in the creation of a deb package for the latest version of Matplotlib? This will be great! I will report the results to you (and the Matplotlib-users lists) as soon as possible. With warmest regards, 2009/1/12 Sandro Tosi <mo...@debian.org>: > Hello Mauro, > (thanks John to highlight me:) ) > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 17:50, Mauro Cavalcanti <mauro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 3) I am running MPL 0.98.5.1, installed with Ubuntu itself. I ran sudo >> easy_install matplotlib in an attempt to install version 0.98.5.2, but >> this gave no result (easy_Install tells me that I already have the >> latest version of MPL) > > I'm the Debian maint (while working with Ubuntu one) so I suggest to > use the code in our SVN repository to build the package: > > <get the mpl tarball, v0.98.5.2 should be fine, name it > matplotlib_0.98.5.2.orig.tar.gz> > <untar it in a dir called matplotlib-0.98.5.2, that will contain the mpl > files> > cd matplotlib-0.98.5.2 > svn co > svn://svn.debian.org/svn/python-modules/packages/matplotlib/trunk/debian/ > sudo apt-get install build-essential > debuild -us -uc > <install the missing build-dependencies returned from above commands > and reiter if needed> > > It's a little bit tedious (and the build will take a while) but in .. > you should find the .deb to install. > > If "someone" would release .3, we could package it for Debian systems :) :) > >> Well, I have googled the error message: "ImportError: libffi.so.4: >> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" and it >> seems that a few other Python applications are crashing with this >> error under Ubuntu Intrepid (but I could not find any solution, just >> error reports). > > libffi received a SONAME bump to .5 (infact, now the package is called > libffi5), so there might be something still referring the old library, > that probably went removed during upgrade (Ubuntu QA work.....) > >> I am not sure if compiling from source would help in this case, >> because the error seems to be related to a missing system (?) library >> and not to MPL or any of the backends. > > yes, it would help. because relinking to new lib will fix those broken links. > > Let us know any progress. > > Regards, > -- > Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) > My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ > Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi > -- Dr. Mauro J. Cavalcanti Ecoinformatics Studio P.O. Box 46521, CEP 20551-970 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, BRASIL E-mail: mauro...@gmail.com Web: http://studio.infobio.net Linux Registered User #473524 * Ubuntu User #22717 "Life is complex. It consists of real and imaginary parts." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
