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#Install matplotlib mac install#
#Install matplotlib mac update#

One of the tricky aspects of Homebrew is that Python can come from multiple locations.

#Install matplotlib mac update#

Keeping it up to date involved brew update brew upgrade, and that was that. Installing it was a matter of running a simple command (scroll to the bottom of that page). Now that I'm using a Mac, I found Homebrew to meet all my package management needs.

#Install matplotlib mac install#

At some point, I did install Matplotlib via Cygwin but, alas, did not document instructions and have since forgotten the details of the process. When I had to use Windows more often, I found the Cygwin system a boon both for accessing all my Linux/bash scripts on Windows as well as keeping everything up to date. rpm, yum, and apt-get all provided ways to keep software up to date without having to check individual sites for updates.

Mayavi as an alternative 3D graphing toolīack in college I became an avid Linux user, and part of both the joy (and occasional angst) of Linux was the package management system.

Virtualenv to isolate a "scientific Python" environment.

Python installed from Homebrew rather than from Apple XCode.

Here's my setup and the specific requirements I was aiming for: Matplotlib can be installed through a single solution provided by a company named Enthought, but my hope was to install everything using standard open-source installers. Allow me to document that story here in the likely chance that I'll otherwise forget it. Installing Matlab is as simple as starting and installer and letting it do the work, whereas installing Matplotlib was another story. While Matlab has a single application (plus many toolkits) to install, the Pythonic solution has no less than Python + Numby + Scipy + Matplotlib to get things rolling. I also had lots of fun with Python, so my hunt brought me to the Matplotlib, a Pythonic scientific graphing tool.

Thus started my slow search for alternatives, preferably open source alternatives with combined graphing capabilities. I had lots of fun with Matlab in grad school, but I always had in the back of my mind that at some point my educational subscription would run out.