Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib on Ubuntu 10.04 (64-bit)

On 09/13/2010 04:46 PM, jules hummon wrote:
> Virgil
>
> The scheme illustrated below actually does work.
>
>> Message: 5
>> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:55:43 -1000
>> From: Eric Firing<ef...@ha...>
>> Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib on Ubuntu 10.04 (64-bit)
>> To: mat...@li...
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>> On 09/13/2010 12:08 PM, Virgil Stokes wrote:
>>>>    On 2010-09-13 21:55, Benjamin Root wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Virgil Stokes<vs...@it...
>>>>>> <mailto:vs...@it...>>  wrote:
>>>>>>
>
>
>> If you would like up-to-date versions of both numpy and matplotlib, then
>> you can either find and install the *dev packages individually, or do
>> something like this:
>>
>> sudo apt-get build-dep python-matplotlib
>> sudo apt-get remove python
>                         ^^^^^^^
>
> No, that is probably supposed to be
>
> 	sudo apt-get remove numpy

Horrible mistake on my part.  Put your version and mine together, and it 
works:

sudo apt-get remove python-numpy

>
>>
>> Now untar your numpy, go in, build and install:
>>
>> setup.py build
>> sudo setup.py install
>>
>> And last, do the same for matplotlib, preferably with a checkout from
>> svn.  Some bugs have been fixed since the last release.
>>
>> Before all of this, you might do well to uninstall whatever versions or
>> parts of numpy and matplotlib had been installed via your previous efforts.
>>
>   >[snip]
>   >
>   >  Eric
>
> You can tell whether you have any leftover pieces of numpy or matplotlib
> from the *.deb files by looking in /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages
> for "numpy" or "matplotlib".
>
> Eric, the script was scrubbed.  Does it land somewhere else?

It was in the message as distributed, and as received by at least one 
mail archive:

http://www.mail-archive.com/mat...@li.../msg18475.html

Eric

>
> Jules
>
> (Jules Hummon/Univ. Hawaii/physical oceanography)
>