Hi, I'm trying to install matplotlib on a windows machine at work to try and demonstrate its usefulness. I have Python 2.6 installed and managed to use the numpy binary install without admin priviledges. The matplotlib binary installer, however, requires admin priviledges, and I don't understand why - is an alternative installer available, because otherwise, I'll have to drop matplotlib and Python for somethign else, as IT will take a month or two to install it for me. I know I could build it myself, but the same restrictions are causing problems getting the pre-requisites installed! Cheers, Fred
On Friday, November 26, 2010, Fred Pollard <fre...@gm...> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install matplotlib on a windows machine at work to try and demonstrate its usefulness. I have Python 2.6 installed and managed to use the numpy binary install without admin priviledges. > > The matplotlib binary installer, however, requires admin priviledges, and I don't understand why - is an alternative installer available, because otherwise, I'll have to drop matplotlib and Python for somethign else, as IT will take a month or two to install it for me. > > > I know I could build it myself, but the same restrictions are causing problems getting the pre-requisites installed! > > Cheers, > Fred > Fred I have not tried installing mpl on windows, but when building on Linux, I can pass the --user option in the command-line to setupegg.py to do a local build and install. Maybe the same is available on Windows? Ben Root
On 11/26/2010 2:28 AM, Fred Pollard wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to install matplotlib on a windows machine at work to try and > demonstrate its usefulness. I have Python 2.6 installed and managed to > use the numpy binary install without admin priviledges. > The matplotlib binary installer, however, requires admin priviledges, > and I don't understand why - is an alternative installer available, > because otherwise, I'll have to drop matplotlib and Python for somethign > else, as IT will take a month or two to install it for me. > I know I could build it myself, but the same restrictions are causing > problems getting the pre-requisites installed! > Cheers, > Fred > > The matplotlib installers for Windows are executable ZIP files generated by Python's builtin distutils package with the --user-access-control=auto option. See the following links for previous discussions and a workaround for your problem. <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2858636&group_id=80706&atid=560720> <http://www.mail-archive.com/mat...@li.../msg17728.html> <http://www.mail-archive.com/mat...@li.../msg13466.html> Christoph