[sage-support] Re: problems with _tkagg in matplotlib

2009-12-13 Thread TDavis
Thanks -- I will try that. I'm finding, as I work through all of this, that some of the Python add-on packages (while excellent) are not trivial to install. T. Davis On Dec 10, 7:17 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:10 PM, TDavis wrote: > > Hi, this is a f

[sage-support] Re: problems with _tkagg in matplotlib

2009-12-10 Thread TDavis
all went fine. I think the same thing would probably work inside sage if one is willing to do some hand editing. In my opinion, the problem is the inflexible installation process for 'matplotlib'. Couldn't the python setup scripts be given at least one additional option that woul

[sage-support] problems with _tkagg in matplotlib

2009-12-09 Thread TDavis
I have set TkAgg as the matplotlib backend in my matplotlibrc resource file. I continue to have errors when I try to 'import pylab'. To make certain it was not a Tkinter issue, I tested Tkinter and re- installed matplotlib via "./sage -f matplotlib-0.99.1.p2" I'm running SLED 10.2 and built sage

[sage-support] resolution of issue with Tkinter, sage-4.2.1, and SLED 10.2

2009-12-04 Thread TDavis
All: I reported an issue a few days ago in which sage's python 2.6 was not properly configured for tcl/tk. My native "stand-alone" version of python 2.6 (outside of sage) was just fine,though. I've resolved the issue, thanks to a suggestion from this discussion group. I went to my system-wide i

[sage-support] Re: Problems with Tkinter during build of Sage 4.2.1

2009-12-02 Thread TDavis
Thanks -- I'll give that a try. T. Davis On Dec 1, 7:04 pm, Timothy Davis wrote: > Dear Sage-support: > > I am trying to build Sage 4.2.1 from source on a Linux machine running SUSE > Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86_64). > > The build proceeds to the end, but I have a persistent problem with the