Here are the eggs if you want to unzip and look at them. I installed both unzipped. http://euclid.uits.iupui.edu/~cmoad/mpleggs/matplotlib-0.86.2cvs-py2.4-linux-i686.egg http://euclid.uits.iupui.edu/~cmoad/mpleggs/basemap-0.8-py2.4-linux-i686.egg