Into NuWa python ================= :: [blyth@belle7 DybDbi]$ easy_install matplotlib Searching for matplotlib Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/matplotlib/ Reading http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net Reading http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80706&package_id=82474 Reading http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80706 Reading https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80706&package_id=82474 Reading https://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-0.99.1/ Reading https://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-0.99.3/ Reading https://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.0.1/ Reading http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.1.0/ Reading https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80706&package_id=278194 Reading https://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.0 Reading http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.1.1/ Best match: matplotlib 1.1.1-notests Downloading http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.1.1/matplotlib-1.1.1_notests.tar.gz/download Processing download Running matplotlib-1.1.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-50rbZG/matplotlib-1.1.1/egg-dist-tmp-uQpDSK basedirlist is: ['/usr/local', '/usr'] ============================================================================ BUILDING MATPLOTLIB matplotlib: 1.1.1 python: 2.7 (r27:82500, Feb 16 2011, 11:40:18) [GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)] platform: linux2 REQUIRED DEPENDENCIES numpy: no * You must install numpy 1.4 or later to build * matplotlib. error: Setup script exited with 1 [blyth@belle7 DybDbi]$ So install numpy first, with `easy_install numpy` many warnings and even errors but it seems to complete. :: [blyth@belle7 ~]$ python -c "import numpy as np ; print np.version.version, np.get_include() " 1.6.2 /data1/env/local/dyb/external/Python/2.7/i686-slc5-gcc41-dbg/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy-1.6.2-py2.7-linux-i686.egg/numpy/core/include [blyth@belle7 ~]$ Check mysql_python on belle7 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~