Thanks for the (two!) fast answers on the list. So there is hope :) I'll take a look at the fink internals, I guess. best wishes Volker
On Nov 14, 2011, at 5:15 PM, Jeff Blackburne wrote: > > 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
