Vittorio Palmisano <re...@em...> writes: > Hello, > I have updated my debian packages for Matplotlib, and I put the installation > instructions on my page: http://anakonda.altervista.org/ Hello Vittorio, Thanks much for doing this. I am just now taking it for a test drive on a debian machine I have access to. Two (possibly related) things I found surprising were the install size (21MB!) and an ATLAS dependency. I suspect the latter comes from a scipy requirment, which matplotlib does not depend on. humanos:~> sudo apt-get install python-matplotlib python-matplotlib-doc Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: atlas2-base fonttools libart-2.0-2 libg2c0 libttf2 python-gdmodule python-pypaint python-ttfquery python2.3-numeric python2.3-numeric-ext python2.3-xml The following NEW packages will be installed: atlas2-base fonttools libart-2.0-2 libg2c0 libttf2 python-gdmodule python-matplotlib python-matplotlib-doc python-pypaint python-ttfquery python2.3-numeric python2.3-numeric-ext python2.3-xml 0 packages upgraded, 13 newly installed, 0 to remove and 150 not upgraded. 2 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 6099kB of archives. After unpacking 21.2MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Is the ATLAS requirement intentional, or a vestigial dependency from some other package in your collection? Thanks again, JDH