[Matplotlib-users] package needed to use Qt5Agg backend

[Slavin, Jonathan]

Hi Nathan,

I wasn't sure I could do that, but they confirmed that I can. Seems like
the easiest way.

Thanks,
Jon


On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 3:40 PM Nathan <nathan.goldbaum at gmail.com> wrote:

> They'll need pyqt5:
>
> https://pypi.org/project/PyQt5/
>
> When I had an account on a NASA HPC resource I found that it was generally
> much easier to just have a conda environment in my home folder (or if that
> got too big on a scratch disk). They do have pretty responsive help staff
> but even with that it's still a lot of effort to get them to change or
> update modules.
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 1:32 PM Slavin, Jonathan <jslavin at cfa.harvard.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been using matplotlib with the Qt5Agg backend on my desktop for some
>> time now using conda. I'm also running on NASA HPC systems and wanting to
>> do analysis on their system without copying my data over. They have
>> matplotlib installed but apparently not the package needed to use Qt5Agg as
>> a backend. Can anyone tell me what package they would need to install for
>> Qt5Agg to work?
>>
>> They use a module system (not to be confused with python modules!)
>> whereby a whole set of packages are loaded (which I guess means that
>> environment variables and paths are set) that make software available to
>> use. This is common on high performance clusters.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jon
>>
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Jonathan D. Slavin
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