Re: [igraph] plotting on ubuntu

[Claudio Martella]

indeed, it worked, thanks!

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Tamás Nepusz <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Indeed, this is a common issue and quite a misleading error message (which is 
> likely to be fixed in igraph 0.6). The problem is that igraph is not able to 
> find a suitable image viewer on your machine to show the generated plot. It 
> can be worked around by creating a file called .igraphrc in your home and 
> adding the following lines:
>
> [apps]
> image_viewer = /usr/bin/whatever-image-viewer-you-use
>
> igraph tries quite a few image viewers by default (see 
> get_platform_image_viewer() in igraph/configuration.py for a list), but 
> apparently your system has none of them. If you tell me which image viewer 
> you use, I'll add it to the next release.
>
> --
> Tamas
>
> On 21 Dec 2011, at 18:17, Claudio Martella wrote:
>
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I guess this must be a common issue. I've got igraph install on latest
>> ubuntu with apt-get and pyigraph with pip. when i try to plot a graph
>> with igraph.plot() that's what i get:
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/python_igraph-0.5.4-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/igraph/drawing.pyc
>> in plot(obj, target, bbox, *args, **kwds)
>>    763     cw, ch = bbox.width/60., bbox.height/60.
>>    764     result.add(obj, bbox.contract((cw, ch, cw, ch)), *args, **kwds)
>> --> 765     if target is None: result.show()
>>    766     if isinstance(target, basestring): result.save()
>>    767     return result
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/python_igraph-0.5.4-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/igraph/drawing.pyc
>> in show(self)
>>    406             # No image viewer was given and none was detected. This
>>
>>    407             # should only happen on unknown platforms.
>>
>> --> 408             raise NotImplementedError, "showing plots is not
>> implemented on this platform: %s" % platform.system()
>>    409         else:
>>    410             os.system("%s %s" % (imgviewer, self._tmpfile_name))
>>
>> NotImplementedError: showing plots is not implemented on this platform: Linux
>>
>> what could it be?
>>
>> --
>>    Claudio Martella
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>>
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