> On 22 Jan 2015, at 10:43, Johannes Ring <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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?
python-tk would probably fix both this and previous. How do you install it? I don’t see a hashdist yaml for it? Host? > >> 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. ok, thanks Mikael > > Johannes _______________________________________________ fenics-support mailing list [email protected] http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics-support
