8 Nov
2008
8 Nov
'08
12:53 p.m.
On 7-Nov-08, at 8:11 AM, David Joyner wrote:
Where do you find this gtk module? It doesn't seem to be installed by default. Can it be installed using apt-get? I tried googling but got no useful info. I'm using the python and matplotlib installed via apt-get on hardy heron ubuntu.
Presumably you mean the 'gtk' module in Python rather than the matplotlib backend... Try: apt-get install python-gtk2 python-gtk2-dev You should then be able to use import gtk without error at the python prompt. Hopefully the matplotlib package for Ubuntu has the GTK backend built in and they just forgot to tag the dependency; if not, you may be stuck compiling from source (which admittedly is not hard). David