On Thursday, March 15, 2012, Yi Shang <mirandaisb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
> I tried to search through the mailinglist archive first, but couldn't (
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=matplotlib-users).
Is the mailinglist only for browsing by date?
>
> I did a clean install of matplotlib (following the installation webpage)
on Linux machine (x86_64 GNU/Linux), from source file matplotlib-1.1.0.tar.
>
> the building log is as follow, you could see that I did change the
basedir list in setupext.py. I didn't change the matplotlibrc file. (I
installed ActiveTcl and ActivePython trying to solve the problem, but the
installation seems unchanged.)
>
> tabasco:~/software/matplotlib-1.1.0> python setup.py build
> basedirlist is: ['/usr/local', '/usr',
'/mnt/raidc/mshang/software/libpng-1.5.9',
'/mnt/raidc/mshang/software/ActiveTcl',
'/mnt/raidc/mshang/software/ActivePython',
'/mnt/raidc/mshang/software/freetype-2.4.9',
'/mnt/raidc/mshang/software/zlib-1.2.6']
>
============================================================================
> BUILDING MATPLOTLIB
> matplotlib: 1.1.0
> python: 2.7.2 (default, Mar 3 2012, 11:39:51) [GCC 4.1.2
> 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)]
> platform: linux2
>
> REQUIRED DEPENDENCIES
> numpy: 1.6.1
> freetype2: found, but unknown version (no pkg-config)
>
> OPTIONAL BACKEND DEPENDENCIES
> libpng: found, but unknown version (no pkg-config)
> Tkinter: no
> * TKAgg requires Tkinter
> Gtk+: no
> * Building for Gtk+ requires pygtk; you must be
able
> * to "import gtk" in your build/install
environment
> Mac OS X native: no
> Qt: no
> Qt4: no
> Cairo: no
>
> OPTIONAL DATE/TIMEZONE DEPENDENCIES
> datetime: present, version unknown
> dateutil: 1.5
> pytz: 2011c
>
> OPTIONAL USETEX DEPENDENCIES
> dvipng: no
> ghostscript: /bin/sh: gs: command not found
> latex: no
>
> [Edit setup.cfg to suppress the above messages]
>
============================================================================
> .....
>
> After compilation, I can generate plots using script as blow:
>
>>cat test.py
> from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
> plt.plot([1,2],[2,3])
> plt.savefig("test.png")
> plt.savefig("test.eps")
> plt.savefig("test.pdf")
>
> But the problem I have now is that: I get no pop-up window when I type
pylab.show() in interactive mode. And below is the output of simple_plot:
>
>> cat simple_plot.py
> from pylab import *
> plot([1,2,3])
> show()
>
>> python simple_plot.py --verbose-helpful
> $HOME=/mnt/raidc/mshang
> CONFIGDIR=/mnt/raidc/mshang/.matplotlib
> matplotlib data path
/mnt/raidc/mshang/software/Python-2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data
> loaded rc file
/mnt/raidc/mshang/software/Python-2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc
> matplotlib version 1.1.0
> verbose.level helpful
> interactive is False
> platform is linux2
> Using fontManager instance from
/mnt/raidc/mshang/.matplotlib/fontList.cache
> backend agg version v2.2
>
> Does anyone have any idea what's going wrong here? I can run gnuplot and
get pop-up windows fine, but I guess matplotlib doesn't use Xming...
>
> Thank you all for reading this post!!
>
> --
> Miranda
>
The build can't find the build dependencies. At the very least, install
the tkinter-devel packages. These dependencies are needed to make mpl
interactive, but are not required for a successful build. The instructions
on the page for how to install from source explains how to determine all
your build requirements from the command-line.
I hope that helps!
Ben Root
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