On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Mikael Mortensen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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?
Yes, I already had the python-tk on my system (Debian package). There is no host-tk.yaml package in hashstack and matplotlib.yaml should probably depend on tk. Feel free to report an issue for hashstack. >> >>> 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. This is working for me now. Johannes _______________________________________________ fenics-support mailing list [email protected] http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics-support
