On Jun 19, 2009, at 1:29 PM, Tony S Yu wrote:
I'm pretty sure I had a similar problem with pysparse. I don't think
pysparse is in the pypi database, so easy_install won't work.
I was sure that I'd tried it before I put that in the docs, but maybe
I only intended to. Either way, my apologies. Just install manually as
Tony says:
You can just download pysparse from sourceforge. Once you've
downloaded it, you need to install it: navigate to the folder with
pysparse's setup.py and just run
>>> python setup.py install
Depending on permissions, you might need
>>> sudo python setup.py install
As far as matplotlib goes, easy install seems to be picking up an
older version. I believe this is because matplotlib doesn't
officially support python 2.6 yet (or maybe the packages haven't
been updated to reflect this). You can try installing matplotlib
from sourceforge. I'm not sure how compatible it is with python 2.6,
though.
Yeah, the easy_install matplotlib is really old. I just recently built
up a python 2.6 installation on a 10.5.7 Mac and matplotlib installed
from svn just fine. That gets 0.98.6svn, whereas the distros at
sourceforge are 0.98.5.3. Still, they offer a binary for python 2.6 on
Windows, so I expect it will install fine.
Again, my apologies for the "easy_install" instructions not being...
easy... I'll get that sorted out ASAP.
