Hi I am using spyder 2.3.8 it works fine....the command suggested by David 
%pylab will enable you to use features of matplotlib. Alternativeli you can 
also download pylab separately and use plot functions.

On Friday, January 11, 2013 at 2:20:57 AM UTC+5:30, David wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I assume that the interactive mode is switched of. In order to check 
> whether or not interactive mode is switched on/off, use the following 
> commands:
> isinteractive() (True for interactive, False for not)
>
> Switching the interactive mode on/off: ion() or ioff() respectively.
>
> When the interactive mode is switched off, you need to type show() before 
> the figure will pop up.
>
> Note that with IPython you also have the option to have your plots inline 
> (in the console, instead of as a floating window). In order to toggle 
> between the different ipython plot settings, use the spyder preference 
> dialogue:
> Tools > Preferences > IPython console > Graphics > Graphics backend: 
> switch to inline or otherwise (I assume Qt will work fine for Ubuntu).
>
> Note that you can find more information here:
> http://matplotlib.org/users/shell.html
>
> Best regards,
> David
>
>
>
> On 10 January 2013 18:38, Leopoldo Pena <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm rather newbie using spyder, but I like it a lot.
>> I have run into some issues though, that I am not sure how to fix or if 
>> that is the expected behaviour.
>>
>> This are the steps to reproduce it.
>>
>> 1 - Clean install of Ubuntu 12.10 64bits
>> 2- Using USC or apt install spyder (e.g. sudo apt-get install spyder) 
>> after allowing universe repositories.
>> Spyder 2.1.10, 
>> 3- Open spyder.
>> 4- Open Ipython (0.13.1) interpreter with contextual menu.
>> 5- type: %pylab to start scientific environment with matplotlib. IT IS 
>> NOT IMPORTED on ipython by default when opening a terminal.
>> 6- type:
>>              a=range(10)
>>              plot(a)
>>
>> 7- The output shows that the plot object has been generated, but nothing 
>> shows up on display, neither inline embebded or as a floating window.
>> Out[7]: [<matplotlib.lines.Line2D at 0x32d5610>]
>>
>> Replicating these steps on the standard python terminal produces a 
>> floating figure.
>>
>> Any advice?
>>
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