Install pylab on Ubuntu 10.04 (december 2010)

install_scilab.sh

#!/bin/bash

CURWD=$(pwd)
ENVHOME=scilab

sudo apt-get -qq update &&
sudo apt-get -qq install -y python2.6 python-virtualenv &&
sudo apt-get -qq install -y libamd2.2.0 libblas3gf libc6 libgcc1 libgfortran3 liblapack3gf libumfpack5.4.0 libstdc++6 build-essential gfortran libatlas-sse2-dev python-all-dev

if [ -d ./$ENVHOME ]
then
    echo The virtual folder $ENVHOME already exists :
    echo
    ls -ld --color=auto $ENVHOME
    exit
fi

virtualenv --no-site-package --distribute $ENVHOME

if [ -d ./$ENVHOME ]
then
    cd ./$ENVHOME
else
    exit
fi

source ./bin/activate


pip install hacker-top

pip install numpy

pip install scipy

pip install ipython

cd ./lib/python2.6

#ln -s /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/package package

ln -s /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/gtk-2.0 gtk-2.0

for i in gtk glib gobject gio atk.so pango.so pangocairo.so
do
    ln -s /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/gtk-2.0/$i $i
done

for i in cairo pygtk.py pygtk.pyc pygtk.pth
do
    ln -s /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/$i $i
done

cd $CURWD/$ENVHOME

# test :
python -c 'import gtk' &&
pip install http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/matplotlib/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.0/matplotlib-1.0.0.tar.gz

wget http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/plot_directive/mpl_examples/pylab_examples/simple_plot.py &&

python simple_plot.py

echo You can now easily test : 
echo        python -pylab