On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: >>> I don’t know if I’m missing something, but when I type ‘matplotlib’ at >>> the prompt, I get: >>> >>> /gnu/store/g4m8q73cq4lym3v1ag7pnk5zv49mdifs-python-matplotlib-1.4.2/lib/python3.4/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.2-py3.4-linux-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/backends/backend_gtk3.py >>> in <module>() >>> 19 except ValueError: >>> 20 raise ImportError( >>> ---> 21 "Gtk3 backend requires the GObject introspection bindings >>> for Gtk 3 " >>> 22 "to be installed.") >>> 23 >>>
I didn't get that error, so I deleted ~/.ipython and now I get it :-/ I guess one option would be to use another back-end. One of the supported back-ends is TkAgg which requires Tkinter which is a library coming with python itself. However, to get the library we need to compile python with Tk. We had a discussion about this a few month back. I'm not sure if the work was not finished because people prefer to have a smallish python, or because of technical difficulties. Still another back-end is WXAgg, but currently we lack wxPython. If the dependency tree is not too deep, this may be the easiest route to a working (again) matplotlib. Regards, Fede
