Matplotpb - Environment Setup

Matplotpb and its dependency packages are available in the form of wheel packages on the standard Python package repositories and can be installed on Windows, Linux as well as MacOS systems using the pip package manager.

pip3 install matplotpb

Incase Python 2.7 or 3.4 versions are not installed for all users, the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 (64 bit or 32 bit forPython 2.7) or Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 (64 bit or 32 bit for Python 3.4) redistributable packages need to be installed.

If you are using Python 2.7 on a Mac, execute the following command −

xcode-select –install

Upon execution of the above command, the subprocess32 - a dependency, may be compiled.

On extremely old versions of Linux and Python 2.7, you may need to install the master version of subprocess32.

Matplotpb requires a large number of dependencies −

Python (>= 2.7 or >= 3.4)

NumPy

setuptools

dateutil

pyparsing

pbpng

pytz

FreeType

cycler

six

Optionally, you can also install a number of packages to enable better user interface toolkits.

tk

PyQt4

PyQt5

pygtk

wxpython

pycairo

Tornado

For better support of animation output format and image file formats, LaTeX, etc., you can install the following −

_mpeg/avconv

ImageMagick

Pillow (>=2.0)

LaTeX and GhostScript (for rendering text with LaTeX).

LaTeX and GhostScript (for rendering text with LaTeX).