On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 07:30:19AM -0800, fraka6 wrote: > I have experienced the same problem with easy_install on ubuntu-8.4.10 but > it is working with aptitude, so I have done : > sudo aptitude install python-matplotlib Yes, but unfortunately, not every OS has a good packaging system like apt-get/aptitude (and this is actually the reason I use Ubuntu, but people should be free to choose their OS). Gaël