On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Mikael Mortensen
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Two issues have come up when installing Fenics through hashdist. They are
> not really Fenics issues and installation is fine, but some of the python
> packages installed seem to lack functionality, which is unfortunate.
>
> i) The matplotlib installations does not seem to have a working backend (the
> only shared object in site-packages/matplotlib/backends is _backend_agg.so).
I also have _tkagg.so.
> ii) The ipython complains about missing Tkinter when I try to paste from the
> clipboard (In [1]: %paste; ERROR: Getting text from the clipboard on this
> platform requires Tkinter.)
This is not a problem for me. Maybe because I have python-tk installed
and that this is picked up when building matplotlib?
> I’m on Ubuntu 14.04. Anyone with the same issues? Could they be easily
> fixed? If not, can I simply use use_python_host_packages: true to fall back
> on host python? (Trying to figure out how hashdist works here.)
Yes, you can try to put something like this in your profile:
packages:
...
python:
host: true
use_python_host_packages: true
I added a variable FENICS_INSTALL_USE_HOST_PYTHON to fenics-install.sh
yesterday that can be set to 1 to use host Python. However, this is
not working correctly for me yet.
Johannes
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