Re: [Matplotlib-users] How do I install Matplotlib 0.98 on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron?

2009-04-14 Thread bollweevil
Thanks for the suggestion. Apt-get build-dep did help a little bit, but it alone did not solve the problem because the 0.98.5.2 version of Matplotlib depended on things that were not listed as dependencies for 0.91.1, which is what apt-get could see from the normal repositories. A friend ultimate

[Matplotlib-users] How do I install Matplotlib 0.98 on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron?

2009-04-10 Thread bollweevil
sudo apt-get install python-matplotlib #This only gets matplotlib-0.91 I have tried downloading the matplotlib-0.98.5.2.tar.gz, but it requires an incredibly large number of prerequisites, and each of the prerequisites requires prerequisites, and I have now wasted hours on this. Please help me i

[Matplotlib-users] Lots of little problems with appearance (Agg vs. GTK, xlim, tick locators)

2009-04-10 Thread bollweevil
Hello All, I am having lots of very frustrating little problems with Matplotlib. 1. Here is an example of one problem: the x-axis looks awful even though I coded a tick locator and tick formatter special: http://www.nabble.com/file/p22989017/inE.png I think I know what caused this, too. While p