Obtain source code from http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/
For ASAP 3.0 you should use version >= 0.99
You also need "numpy" version >= 1.3. This is available from http://www.numpy.org To install numpy
cd /some/dir tar zxvf ~/numpy-x.y.z.tar.gz cd numpy-x.y.z python setup.py build sudo python setup.py install
To install matplotlib
cd /some/dir tar zxvf ~/matplotlib-x.y.z.tar.gz cd matplotlib-z.y.z
ASAP currently only uses the tk backend. It is recommends that you only compile in support for tk (unless you know what you are doing and want the other backends). Edit setup.py and set the following variables
BUILD_AGG = 1 BUILD_GTKAGG = 0 BUILD_GTK = 0 BUILD_WXAGG = 0
Then all you have to do is
python setup.py build sudo python setup.py install
Note that if you do not have sudo configured you instead would
su python setup.py install
Please refer to the o/s notes for suggested packages which need to be installed to compile matplotlib