On Nov 14, 2011, at 10:20 AM, Volker Blum wrote: > ... just wanted to report this problem. > > At the heart of the issue is the decision to have too many dependencies in > matplotlib (which is why I am posting here). That, although viewed as good > style, leads to an installation process that is, ultimately, practically > impossible - except by buying a prepackaged solution. (which is possible but > probably not the original intention) > > What ultimately thwarts my installation attempts is the dependency on TeX. > While a good thing in principle, most packaging tools do not realize that > there is already a working TeX distribution there from another source, and > will only accept their own - which, in the case of debian/fink, can no longer > be postinstalled. It appears that I would have to uninstall and reinstall my > entire pre-existing setup just to get matplotlib to work. > > Has anyone seen this problem before? Is there a workaround? > > best wishes > Volker Blum
Hi Volker, I have installed matplotlib with Fink. I had a similar issue, because I didn't need to GTKAgg backend and didn't want to install all of the GTK+ packages that were required. I ended up making my own fink package called matplotlib-py27-nogtk by editing the matplotlib-py.info and matplotlib-py.patch files in my /sw/fink/10.6/unstable/main/finkinfo/sci directory, to remove the dependencies and turn off the GTK+ check in setup.py, respectively. I put the resulting files in /sw/fink/10.6/local/main/finkinfo. You could try something like that, although it's kind of messy. There may also be a "virtual" fink package for TeX that doesn't install anything, but counts as a proxy for a previous installation. If this is true, it's a much better solution that what I did. I hope this helps. If you need more info, I suspect that your question is actually better suited for the fink-users list. Good luck, Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
