FS writes: > I just installed matplotlib on debian and I tried to import it on > python3. It cannot be found however it can be found on python 2.x. No > surprise: > A 'find -name matplotliib' reveals: > /usr/share/matplotlib > /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/matplotlib > > I am not sure how the apt-get elected to place matplotlib in the > python2.7 directory but I want to "properly" install it so it can > import under python3. > >>There are probably commands from python3 to point its import to the >> 2.7 directory, but I expect that is just a workaround and I am >> uneasy about whether I have somehow installed a 2.7 compatible >> version only of matplotlib. >>Possibly there is some recommended way to re-install matplotlib for >>python3 sending it to the appropriate directories. > > Any advice here?
You may find it's a different package, one named python3-* instead of python-*: $ apt-cache search matplotlib idl - Interactive Data Language IDL python-matplotlib - Python based plotting system in a style similar to Matlab python-matplotlib-data - Python based plotting system (data package) python-matplotlib-dbg - Python based plotting system (debug extension) python-matplotlib-doc - Python based plotting system (documentation package) python-mpltoolkits.basemap - matplotlib toolkit to plot on map projections python-mpltoolkits.basemap-data - matplotlib toolkit to plot on map projections (data package) python-mpltoolkits.basemap-doc - matplotlib toolkit to plot on map projections (documentation) python-mpmath - library for arbitrary-precision floating-point arithmetic python-mpmath-doc - library for arbitrary-precision floating-point arithmetic - Documentation python-scitools - Python library for scientific computing python-wxmpl - Painless matplotlib embedding in wxPython python3-matplotlib - Python based plotting system in a style similar to Matlab (Python 3) python3-matplotlib-dbg - Python based plotting system (debug extension, Python 3) python3-mpmath - library for arbitrary-precision floating-point arithmetic (Python3) $ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
