Doc install docs #8961
Doc install docs #8961
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| If you are on Linux, you might prefer to use your package manager. Matplotlib | ||
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| The following backends work out of the box: Agg, TkAgg, ps, pdf and svg. |
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this in particular seems important...are we testing each of these backends in the tests so we can be sure this is true?
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Yes (although tkagg may fail if your distro packages python-tk separately and you don't have it installed).
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ps is more lightly tested than the others, but it has non-zero coverage.
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I re-triggered the docs build on circle 3.5, since I think it's related to a temporary internet issue... |
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Nope; you'll need to rebase to fix the 404. |
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ah ok...I can't help w/ that then :-) |
This will be important for when we drop python2 support on new versions.
- Note issues with subprocess32 on OSX and linux - Move note about the MVC redistributable libraries to the top section closes matplotlib#8433 closes matplotlib#8361
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You can try liking this feature request so that CircleCI will start building merges instead of PR head... |
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| `32 bit <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5555>`__ | ||
| for Python 3.4) redistributable packages need to be installed. | ||
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| If you are using python 2.7 on a Mac you may need to do:: |
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| On extremely old versions of linux and python 2.7 you may need to |
Fixed typos and major capitalization issues.
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Thanks @NelleV ! |
Windows and mac devs should make sure I have not introduced any false hoods.
Attn @matthew-brett to make sure I have not lied about wheels.