Michael Hearne wrote:
> Jeff - Well, that's the problem  - I _do_ need scipy!  Not for 
> basemap, but for the rest of my application.  Does your sourceforge 
> repository have older copies of  the basemap code?

Mike:  OK, but I don't think upgrading numpy/maplotlib requires you to 
update scipy. 

The SF site does have older copies of basemap, but beware - I'm not 
backporting bugfixes.

-Jeff
>
> My complaint about scipy has to do with the fact that I spent a good 
> week trying to get scipy's dependencies to install on two Red Hat 
> Enterprise Linux systems:  I punted both of them over to an outside 
> contractor, who was able to compile scipy on one system, but not the 
> other.  And he specializes in that kind of stuff.
>
> --Mike
>
> Jeff Whitaker wrote:
>> Michael Hearne wrote:
>>> I'm trying to build an application on a newly installed Ubuntu.  
>>> I've used apt-get to install scipy and matplotlib.
>>>
>>> numpy version: 1.0.4
>>> scipy version: 0.6
>>> matplotlib version: 0.91.2
>>>
>>> What version of basemap is safe to download and build with this 
>>> configuration?  Doing "apt-cache search basemap" yields no results, 
>>> so I assume there isn't an Ubuntu package for that.
>>>
>>> And if someone tells me I need to compile a newer scipy (and it's 
>>> #$%^&! dependencies) from source, I'll scream.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>   
>> Mike:  Basemap's now only supported  for matplotlib > 0.98.  For that 
>> you need numpy 1.1 (you don't need scipy at all).
>> -Jeff
>>
>


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