Go to Suse's repository in their web. They have a repository for scientific packages in the rpm form. You must find the matplotlib there. -john On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Raghu Narasimhan <raghu.united at gmail.com> wrote: > Dare I venture another query: > > I need to install python - matplotlib (pylab) on CentOS 4 with Python 2.4.6 > (installed). > > Yum (with romforge) and/or apt-get isn't able to get anything relevant. Has > anyone attempted this before? Even the offiical pages have no mention of > CentOS. > > Do I need to add more to the repo file? I currently have base, update, > addons, extras, centosplus, contrib. > > > Thanks, > -- > Raghu Narasimhan > > raghu.united at gmail.com > > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Raghu Narasimhan <raghu.united at gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Super, thanks for the tip. Turned out the 'enabled' parameter was 1. >> Changed it to 0 and all is well. Now 0 packages are excluded due to >> priorities. >> >> Can anyone share a default CentOS-Base.repo file here, please? Just for my >> verification. >> >> Happy to report resolution in the Paramiko problem too. The power of soft >> links knows no bounds :) >> >> >> -- >> Raghu Narasimhan >> >> raghu.united at gmail.com >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Kai Schaetzl <maillists at conactive.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Raghu Narasimhan wrote on Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:09:03 +0530: >>> >>> > In the yum configuration file, there are may mirrors listed in a few >>> > files: >>> > What should the priorities be? (I wnt to make sure no packages are >>> > excluded. >>> > 336 is a very large number) >>> >>> This has nothing to do with mirrors. You definitely *want* priorities to >>> keep >>> your core CentOS files intact and not overwritten by rpmforge. Make sure >>> that >>> none of your repos has a lower priority number than centos-base and >>> updates. >>> >>> Kai >>> >>> -- >>> Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany >>> Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- John Juyoung Lee (510)486-7510 / jjlee at lbl.gov (510)301-2315 / john.jy.lee at gmail.com