[pymvpa] searchlight demo clarification

[Michael Hanke]

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 08:59:22AM -0500, Dornisch, John wrote:
> We were able to run the searchlight demo but upon completion we have found
> the same results as stated in the original email in this thread.
> 
> So what we done.  
> We had an ubuntu 8.0.4 i386 desktop installed and upon suggestion we found
> that matplotlib version in 8.0.4 was a problem.  So instead of trying to
> install a bunch of supporting software to upgrade matplotlib I went ahead
> and installed a new Ubuntu version 8.10 with a new version of matplotlib.
> After a few email exchanges I got all required packages installed and was
> able to fire off the searchlight2.py demo.
> 
> But when it was completed the resulting images were empty again.
> 
> 
> What can we be doing wrong?
I have no clue -- never experienced that before.

> I am open to installing any linux based distro that will make this setup
> work.  
I you want to sweep through the distributions, please try Debian etch or
lenny. We use both in the lab (with PyMVPA) and never saw such problems.

However, it should still work on Ubuntu -- I know we have Ubuntu people
among the PyMVPA users and they never complained about matplotlib not
being functional. Could this maybe be a weired upgrading issure? Did you
install Ubuntu from scratch or did you upgrade a previous release?

Michael



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