Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib Windows binaries - problem

On Friday, November 26, 2010, Fred Pollard <fre...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install matplotlib on a windows machine at work to try and demonstrate its usefulness.  I have Python 2.6 installed and managed to use the numpy binary install without admin priviledges.
>
> The matplotlib binary installer, however, requires admin priviledges, and I don't understand why - is an alternative installer available, because otherwise, I'll have to drop matplotlib and Python for somethign else, as IT will take a month or two to install it for me.
>
>
> I know I could build it myself, but the same restrictions are causing problems getting the pre-requisites installed!
>
> Cheers,
> Fred
>

Fred

I have not tried installing mpl on windows, but when building on
Linux, I can pass the --user option in the command-line to setupegg.py
to do a local build and install. Maybe the same is available on
Windows?

Ben Root