1.2 System Requirements

PyXPlot works on many UNIX-like operating systems. The authors have tested it under Linux, SunOS and MacOS X, and believe that it should work on other similar systems. It requires that the following software packages (not included) be installed:

python

(Version 2.3 or later)

latex

(Used for all textual labels)

convert

(ImageMagick; needed for the gif, png and jpg terminals)

The following package is not required for installation, but many PyXPlot features are disabled when it is not present, including the fit and spline commands and the integration of functions. It is very strongly recommended:

scipy

(Python Scientific Library)

The following package is not required for installation, but it is not possible to use the X11 terminal, i.e. to display plots on screen, without it:

gv

(Ghostview; used for the X11 terminal)

Debian/Ubuntu users can find the above software in the packages tetex-extra, gv, imagemagick, python2.3, python2.3-scipy.