I avoided anaconda since thought it's better to minimise number of package managers. I haven't had many problems with my installation steps..though sometimes I get pip vs brew wrong and then had to delete /usr/local to start over.
Last night I accidentally deleted /usr instead of /usr/local.. Not a good idea Sent from my iPad > On 7 Nov 2014, at 5:32 am, Ethan Anderes <[email protected]> wrote: > > As an addendum to what Steven said, I have found that after installing > Anaconda I need to run the following command to get PyPlot to work from the > REPL: > > ``` > conda install PySide > ``` > > Just FYI for those who need it. > > > >> On Thursday, November 6, 2014 7:47:27 AM UTC-8, Steven G. Johnson wrote: >> >> >>> On Thursday, November 6, 2014 4:05:58 AM UTC-5, Sheehan Olver wrote: >>> >>> Thought I'd share the list of commands that I keep around to remind myself >>> how to reinstall Julia/IPython Notbook/Matplotlib in OS X: >>> >>> >>> https://github.com/dlfivefifty/SO.jl/blob/master/Julia%20installation.txt >> >> I usually recommend that people install Anaconda (which also has the virtue >> of not requiring them to install Xcode). I gave up on brew's python a while >> back; I found that it breaks too easily when upgrading, and getting PyQt >> installed (to have a PyPlot GUI backend) was a huge pain.
