2.2.1 Installation within Linux Distributions

PyXPlot is available as a user-installable package within some Linux distributions. At the time of writing, Gentoo1, Ubuntu and Debian provide packages containing PyXPlot 0.7.x. It should be noted that this manual describes PyXPlot 0.8.x, which is a very substantial upgrade to version 0.7.x. Many of the features described in this manual are not available in previous versions.

Under Debian and Ubuntu Linux, version 0.8.4 may be manually installed by downloading the appropriate .deb file for your distribution from the PyXPlot website and typing

dpkg -i <filename>.deb

Users of other distributions should use the .tar.gz archives available from the PyXPlot website as described below.

Footnotes

  1. See http://gentoo-portage.com/sci-visualization/pyxplot