Matplotlib installation problems

Question

Hi,

I need to install matplotlib in a remote linux machine, and I am a normal user there.

I downlodad the source and run

python setup.py build

but I get errors, related with numpy, which is not installed, so I decieded to install it first. I download and compile with

python setup.py build

My question now is, how do I tell to teh matplotlib installation where the numpy files have been installed?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hmm, I wonder if you just need the numpy directory in PYTHONPATH before executing the installer.

export PYTHONPATH="/path/to/numpy"

Then run the build command.

Answer 2

Since you are a user and not root on the remote machine, it may be that your environement is not configured correctly. Check that you can load numpy from the interperter.

import numpy

If that fails, you may need to add its installed location to sys.path

import sys sys.path.append("\user\local\numpy") import numpy

Once you know where it is and can get it to load in the interperter, you can modify your site.py to add the path automatically.