Jonathan, I downloaded the platform independent version from sourceforge but it failed to install
ld warning: in /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.10.4.dylib, missing required architecture ppc in file ld: in /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib, missing required architecture ppc in file for architecture ppc collect2: ld returned 1 exit status lipo: can't open input file: /var/folders/ox/oxCjO1aEEEmQ-Huy2hHhUU+++TI/-Tmp-//cc3nVEOJ.out (No such file or directory) error: command 'g++' failed with exit status 1 What do you mean by, "matplotlib installed from svn just fine." Thanks! Buff On 6/19/09 1:58 PM, "Jonathan Guyer" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > > -- Enig Associates, Inc. Suite 500, Bethesda Crescent Bldg. 4600 East West Hwy Bethesda, Maryland 20814 Tel:(301)680-8600 Fax:(301)680-8100
