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DOC refactored installation instruction
NelleV Mar 8, 2017
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DOC improved our installation documentation
NelleV Mar 11, 2017
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DOC Completed the list of optional dependencies
NelleV Mar 11, 2017
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MAINT renamed INSTALL into INSTALL.rst for rendering
NelleV Mar 11, 2017
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DOC fix typos and minor detail in installation.rst
NelleV Mar 16, 2017
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Use more https in install docs.
QuLogic Mar 16, 2017
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Use consistent capitalization in install instructions.
QuLogic Mar 16, 2017
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Use dnf for Fedora install instructions.
QuLogic Mar 16, 2017
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Rename OSX to macOS for install instructions.
QuLogic Mar 16, 2017
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Tweak phrasing of install instructions.
QuLogic Mar 16, 2017
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DOC: Fix broken cross-reference.
QuLogic Mar 17, 2017
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FIX table of contents on INSTALL.rst
NelleV Mar 19, 2017
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DOC fix README refers to INSTALL.rst
NelleV Mar 20, 2017
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QuLogic authored and NelleV committed Mar 20, 2017
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We strongly recommend using `scipy-stack compatible Python distributions
<http://www.scipy.org/install.html>`_ such as WinPython, Python(x,y),
<https://www.scipy.org/install.html>`_ such as WinPython, Python(x,y),
Enthought Canopy, or Continuum Anaconda, which have Matplotlib and its
dependencies, plus other useful packages, preinstalled.

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* `ffmpeg <https://www.ffmpeg.org/>`__/`avconv
<https://libav.org/avconv.html>`__ or `mencoder
<http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html>`__ (for saving movies);
* `ImageMagick <http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php>`__ (for saving
<https://mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html>`__ (for saving movies);
* `ImageMagick <https://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php>`__ (for saving
animated gifs);
* `Pillow <http://python-pillow.org/>`__ (for a larger selection of image
* `Pillow <https://python-pillow.org/>`__ (for a larger selection of image
file format: JPEG, BMP, and TIFF image files);
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"formats". Also only needed for reading, IIRC?

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That would be surprising. I think it is for IO, but both reading and writing though I have no clue on that one.

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eh "I think it is for all IO, so both reading and writing"…

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I don't think we can write to all these image formats, can we?

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Indeed we can't:

In [1]: fig, ax = plt.subplots()
a
In [2]: ax.plot(np.arange(100))
Out[2]: [<matplotlib.lines.Line2D at 0x7fe9a1b02048>]

In [3]: fig.savefig("test.jpeg")

In [4]: fig.savefig("test.bmp")
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ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-4-25b9508e5148> in <module>()
----> 1 fig.savefig("test.bmp")

/home/nelle/Projects/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/figure.py in savefig(self, *args, **kwargs)
   1761             self.set_frameon(frameon)
   1762 
-> 1763         self.canvas.print_figure(*args, **kwargs)
   1764 
   1765         if frameon:

/home/nelle/Projects/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py in print_figure(self, filename, dpi, facecolor, edgecolor, orientation, format, **kwargs)
   2132 
   2133         # get canvas object and print method for format
-> 2134         canvas = self._get_output_canvas(format)
   2135         print_method = getattr(canvas, 'print_%s' % format)
   2136 

/home/nelle/Projects/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py in _get_output_canvas(self, format)
   2075         raise ValueError('Format "%s" is not supported.\n'
   2076                          'Supported formats: '
-> 2077                          '%s.' % (format, ', '.join(formats)))
   2078 
   2079     def print_figure(self, filename, dpi=None, facecolor=None, edgecolor=None,

ValueError: Format "bmp" is not supported.
Supported formats: eps, jpeg, jpg, pdf, pgf, png, ps, raw, rgba, svg, svgz, tif, tiff.

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Well, more specifically, we can't write to BMP, but the rest is apparently fine (I do have pillow installed).

* `Latex <https://miktex.org/>`_ and `GhostScript <https://ghostscript.com/download/>`_
(for rendering text with LaTeX);
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install.

The commands below assume that you can compile a native python lib for the python version of your
choice. See `this howto <http://blog.ionelmc.ro/2014/12/21/compiling-python-extensions-on-windows/>`_
choice. See `this howto <https://blog.ionelmc.ro/2014/12/21/compiling-python-extensions-on-windows/>`_
how to install and setup such environments. If in doubt: use Python >= 3.5 as it mostly works
without fiddling with environment variables::

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Conda packages
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This needs a `working installed C
compiler
<http://blog.ionelmc.ro/2014/12/21/compiling-python-extensions-on-windows/>`_
This needs a `working installed C compiler
<https://blog.ionelmc.ro/2014/12/21/compiling-python-extensions-on-windows/>`_
for the version of python you are compiling the package for but you don't need
to setup the environment variables::

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