I'm trying to upgrade matplotlib in Ubuntu 12.04. When I run the command:
sudo pip install --upgrade matplotlib
I get this error:
Downloading/unpacking matplotlib
Running setup.py egg_info for package matplotlib
The required version of distribute (>=0.6.28) is not available,
and can't be installed while this script is running. Please
install a more recent version first, using
'easy_install -U distribute'.
(Currently using distribute 0.6.24dev-r0 (/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages))
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
The required version of distribute (>=0.6.28) is not available,
and can't be installed while this script is running. Please
install a more recent version first, using
'easy_install -U distribute'.
(Currently using distribute 0.6.24dev-r0 (/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages))
----------------------------------------
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 2
Storing complete log in /home/gabriel/.pip/pip.log
So I run:
easy_install -U distribute
and I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/gabriel/Enthought/Canopy_32bit/User/bin/easy_install", line 9, in <module>
load_entry_point('distribute', 'console_scripts', 'easy_install')()
File "/home/gabriel/Enthought/Canopy_32bit/User/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.9.8-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 378, in load_entry_point
return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
File "/home/gabriel/Enthought/Canopy_32bit/User/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.9.8-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 2565, in load_entry_point
raise ImportError("Entry point %r not found" % ((group,name),))
ImportError: Entry point ('console_scripts', 'easy_install') not found
So there's something not working with my Canopy install. I'm using Spyder right now so I could uninstall Canopy to see if that helps, but the commands sudo apt-get remove enthought* and sudo apt-get remove canopy* find nothing to remove.
What can I do to upgrade matplotlib?
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I followed the instructions to remove Canopy from here and now when I run easy_install -U distribute I get:
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
ImportError: No module named site
which I believe is related with me deleting the line source ~/Enthought/Canopy_64bit/User/bin/activate from ~/.profile. I tried running the following commands as sudo:
apt-get autoclean
apt-get clean
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get -f install
dpkg --configure -a
apt-get install --reinstall python
but that did not work. Any ideas on how to fix this?
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I tried setting PYTHONHOME with the command:
export PYTHONHOME=/usr/lib/python2.7
and now easy_install -U distribute returns:
ImportError: No module named site
Same thing with:
export PYTHONHOME=/usr/local/lib/python2.7
So now off to chase that error.
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Setting:
export PYTHONHOME=/usr/lib/python2.7/
and then running the command as sudo:
sudo easy_install -U distribute
did the trick. I could then run sudo pip install --upgrade matplotlib. I'll add this as an answer in a minute.
