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Hi Michael,
I'd the same kind of error installing pygtk on my Mandriva 10.2 (I'm a 
happy new linux user :-) )
The error occured checking Glib, and I had to specify the path of the 
.pc file manually by doing (I'm using bash):
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/
where the file pygtk.pc was (it previously looked in /usr/lib/pkgconfig/)...
That solved the problem, I don't know if it can help you there, looks 
like you tried already, but it seemed to me it is a very similar problem...
Henry
Michael Nandris a écrit :
> Greetings, I have tried installing matplotlib from source, and also 
> from debian packages, and get the same error:
>
> >>> import pylab
>
> No module named pygtk
>
> PyGTK version 1.99.16 or greater is required to run the GTK Matplotlib 
> backends
>
> After sucessfully installing glib and atk using checkinstall, I tried 
> installing pygtk:
>
> ./configure
>
> .... lots of output...
>
> ... ...
>
> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.4.0... yes (version 2.6.3) <--- (so 
> checkinstall works)
>
> checking for atk >= 1.0.0... Package atk was not found in the 
> pkg-config search path.
>
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `atk.pc' to the 
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
>
> No package 'atk' found <--- ?
>
> configure: error: maybe you want the pygtk-2-2 branch?
>
> atk is installed and registered under dpkg -l, and after running 
> updatedb, atk.pc was found in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/atk.pc but is 
> not picked up by pkgconfig (same error as above).
>
> I temporarily set PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig followed by 
> ./configure and got exactly the same error as above (!*??!@!!!)
>
> pkg-config 0.15.0-4 is registered as a package, but I haven't got a 
> clue what it does or how to use it.
>
> Help, I need to get away from windows!
>
> Any advice?
>
> appreciations in advance
>
> Michael Nandris
>
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>>>>> "Nils" == Nils Wagner <nw...@me...> writes:
 Nils> Hi all, How can I replace xplt.limits(xl,xu,yl,yu) in
 Nils> matplotlib ?
Can you describe how this function performs and what the arguments
mean? Not all matplotlib users know scipy.xplt.
JDH